IDC: Samsung breaks away from Apple in the Smartphone market

With regard to other vendors from the five best, then in third place here is the Chinese Huawei for its market share at 4.9 per cent and 10.8 million smartphones shipped. Next is a Japanese Sony (9.8 million smartphones, 4.5 per cent) and ZTE (9.5 million units, a 4.3 per cent).