Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This figure is up just 0.2 percent from the 334.3 million units in Q1 2015, marking the smallest year-over-year growth on record. We saw hints of this in yesterday’s Apple earnings report, when the company reported an iPhone sales drop for the first time.
Samsung continues to dominate the worldwide smartphone market. In Q1 2016, the South Korean company once again shipped more smartphones than any other company. In fact, Samsung out-shipped the next two smartphone makers, Apple and Huawei, combined. The latest quarterly figures come from IDC, which summarized its findings in the following chart:
