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Samsung Is Top Smartphone Seller Of 2016

Samsung remained the top Smartphone seller, shipping of 308.5 million units last year that is according to Google analytics tracker. It's less than the sell compared to 319.7 million units shipped in 2015.

Followed by Apple selling of 215.4 million units and 138.8 million units for Huawei maintaining its 3rd position as best seller, Oppo with 84.6 million and Vivo with 71.9 million units.

A total of almost 1.5 billion units in 2016 sold in the market which grows 3 percent annually. Oh that's Job done well for Samsung Inc. but the latest report of 2016 is that Apple becomes world's no. 1 Smartphone vendor in Q4 2016 that according to Strategy analytics WSS Service. More details can be found here.

Growth in global Smartphone vendor market share is 8.9% in Q4 2016 which is lesser than in year 2015 12.2%. Samsung share is 17.7% and 17.8 % for Apple.


When it comes to Overall Market Share in Year 2016 Samsung is still the number at 20.8% of share. So let's see at by the end of year 2017 who will be the top seller of Smartphone industry.