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Apple was the king of US smartphone sales in 2021

A report claims that Apple was the most successful smartphone vendor in the US during 2021

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Samsung could lose number one spot to Xiaomi, research predicts

It seems that Xiaomi's work is starting to pay off, as it could've taken Samsung's first spot in smartphone sales around the world

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US market saw that $1,000 flagship sales weren’t that great in Q2

Check out the latest sales report from Canalys for the US market, where flagship devices didn't sell as well as mid-rangers

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Apple had a stellar Q1 2018 in the US, with six iPhones among the nation’s ten best-selling SKUs

iPhones completely dominated the US market between March and January 2018, with the 64GB iPhone 8 declared the nation's most popular handset, followed by the 64 gig iPhone X.

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Apple’s iPhone X ‘comfortably’ dominated Europe’s ‘fatigued’ Q1 smartphone market

Both Samsung and Apple contributed to Europe's shrinking Q1 2018 smartphone shipment numbers, but the iPhone X was easily the continent's most popular model, according to Canalys.

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Apple’s iPhone X was the world’s top-selling Q1 2018 smartphone, followed by iPhone 8 and 8 Plus

Many analysts rushed to deem the iPhone X a flop, but this flop managed to outsell all other smartphones in the world between January and March 2018.

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Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo are all expected to boost their global sales numbers this year

China's top four smartphone vendors should all be able to increase their global sales scores this year, thanks mainly to improved foreign performance.

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HMD truly had a great first year selling Nokia phones, and 2018 should be even better

Finnish startup HMD Global reportedly shipped as many as 4.4 million Nokia smartphones in Q4 2017, and close to 60 million feature phones in total last year, looking at even higher numbers for 2018.

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HMD probably sold a total of 8.45 million Nokia smartphones in 2017, 4.15 mil in Q4 alone

Rookie smartphone manufacturer HMD Global reportedly managed to sell a boatload of intelligent Nokia devices last year, coming very close to the global top ten OEMs.

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Xiaomi takes top two slots on India’s list of best-selling 2017 smartphones

Samsung may have been India's top overall 2017 smartphone vendor, but Xiaomi won the final quarter, also leading the full-year model popularity chart.

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iOS
Kantar sees the iPhone X dominating November smartphone sales in the UK, China and Japan

Ahead of a somewhat surprising December demand slowdown, Apple's iPhone X reportedly crushed the competition in the month of November, at least across three major global markets.

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Samsung and Apple land on top of Q2 global smartphone sales, but Huawei, OPPO and Xiaomi all creep up

It's been a bittersweet second quarter for industry leaders Samsung and Apple in global smartphone sales, as a trio of underdogs threatens the duopoly.

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LG G6 flops, iPhones bounce back, Galaxy S8 going strong in US smartphone sales report for June

The latest US smartphone sales report from Wave7 Research provides good news for Apple, bittersweet for Samsung and extremely bad news for LG.

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Of course the iPhone 7 was Q1’s top-selling smartphone, but the OPPO R9s unexpectedly won bronze

Can you believe the little-known (in the West) OPPO R9s was the world's third most popular Q1 2017 smartphone, behind the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus only?

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Huawei P9 duo exceeds expectations with 12 million unit sales, P10 goal set at 10M+

It sounds like the P10 and P10 Plus have some big shoes to fill, as the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus have already sold 12 million units worldwide.

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OPPO and Vivo climb to the top two Chinese smartphone brand spots, leaving Huawei behind

Believe it or not, Huawei has been unthroned in its own homeland by local arch-rivals OPPO and Vivo as far as Q3 smartphone sales go.

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China reportedly seized 8 of top 12 spots in Q1 2016 smartphone vendor ranks

Samsung and Apple ruled smartphones sales again between January and March 2016, but a growing pack of Chinese OEMs is threatening the two's domination.

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