Because Apple dominates the smartphone market in the U.S., it’s easy to forget the company only has the silver medal worldwide. Even with 74.8 million iPhones sold last quarter, Samsung continues to dominate the worldwide market. In Q4 2015 and in all of 2015, the South Korean company shipped more smartphones than any other company.
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 399.5 million smartphones worldwide last quarter, a 5.7 growth year over year. In 2015, the worldwide smartphone market saw a total of 1432.9 million units shipped, the highest year of shipments on record and up 10.1 percent from the 1,301.7 million units shipped in 2014. The latest figures come from IDC, which summarized its findings in the following two charts.
First, for Q4 2015:
And secondly, for the full year:
