Apple Passes Samsung to Capture the highest Position in the Worldwide phone Market While Overall Shipments Decline 6.3% in the 4th Quarter, According to IDC

As it stated in Samsung remembered the overall leader in the worldwide phone market for 2017 in spite of losing out to Apple in the 4th quarter. The Korean giant shipped 74.1 mn units in 4Q17, drop 4.4% compared to the 77.5 mn units from final year. Samsung finished the year with 317.3 mn shipments, up 1.9% from the 311.4 mn shipments in 2016. Huawei shipped 41.0 mn units, drop 9.7% from the 45.4 mn shipped in the 4th quarter of 2016. Top 5 phone Company, Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Calendar Year 2017 Preliminary information (shipments in millions) firm 2017 Shipment Volumes 2017 Market Share 2016 Shipment Volumes 2016 Market Share Year-Over-Year Change 1.

Wondering if your Samsung phone Gets Oreo? Here's a list.

Android 8, best known as Oreo has been reported final summer and is seeing slow adoption towards compatible devices. Samsung currently rolled out an Android Oreo beta programme only to its Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices, and no 1 truly knows if other Galaxy device owners going to get which yummy cookie update, which this time changes as there is a list. Within framework-res file of the unreleased Note eight Android Oreo beta he and xda-developpers found a list of XML files which describe the hardware which is present on certain Samsung devices. More importantly, the titles of these XML files contain the internal code-names of many current Samsung devices. That xml files with code names propose which these devices are being tested with Samsung for Android Oreo and there is a perfect chance which they going to get which update.

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IDC: phone shipments drop 6.3% in Q4 2017, Apple overtakes Samsung for highest spot

Apple is the new universal phone king, surpassing elect Samsung, if only for 1 quarter. Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 430.7 mn smartphones worldwide in Q4 2017, drop 6.3 % from the 403.5 mn units in Q4 2016. Of the highest 5 (Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo), only 1 (Xiaomi) managed to ship further units. That said, Apple and Samsung both continue gained share overall, thanks to smaller players shipping even fewer units. Samsung's market share inched up 0.4 percentage points (from 18.0 % to 18.4 percent) as it shipped 3.4 mn fewer smartphones (74.1 million).

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