279 million smartphones shipped in Q1 2014, 34% had over 5-inch displays

[Guest Jared Peters]

 

Year over year, smartphone shipments saw a decent increase from last year. In Q1 2014, 279.4 million smartphones were shipped globally, which showed a roughly 29% increase from the first quarter of last year. Oddly, though, shipments fell 5% in Q4 from 2013, which is usually a pretty strong quarter for all sales markets, considering all of the holidays in the last three months of the year. Sales were still great, they just aren’t improving like everyone would expect.

 

81% of the 279.4 million devices shipped were Android devices, unsurprisingly. iOS phones accounted for 16%, and Windows Phones claimed 3%. Samsung was still the global top dog in the smartphone market, shipping 31% of all of the devices in Q1. The next closest vendor was Apple at 16%.

 

Interestingly, 34% of all devices shipped in Q1 had a common factor; they all had over 5-inch screens. This segment grew 369%, showing that consumers are gravitating towards larger smartphones. Samsung took the lion’s share of the market when it came to these devices, accounting for 44% of all devices shipped with over a 5 inch screen.

 

source:

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