Samsung remained the world's largest smartphone vendor, with an estimated 74.5 million phones sold versus 76.0 million a year earlier. However, its market share dipped to 25.2 percent from 32.6 percent a year ago. Apple also lost share, despite growing shipments, accounting for 11.9 percent of the global smartphone market versus 13.4 percent a year ago.
Chinese manufacturers were the main winners in the quarter. Huawei strengthened its third place in the market with a 6.8 percent share, up from 4.8 percent a year earlier, Lenovo grew to 5.4 percent from 4.8 and Xiaomi jumped to 5.1 percent from 1.8 percent in the year-earlier period. LG dropped to sixth place, with a share of 4.9 percent versus 5.2 percent in Q2 2013.
Strategy Analytics estimates that Google's Android increased its share of the smartphone market to 84.6 percent in Q2, from 80.2 percent a year earlier. Apple's iOS fell to 11.9 percent, and Microsoft's Windows Phone dropped to 2.7 percent. Blackberry had just 0.6 percent of the market in the quarter, down from 2.4 percent a year ago.
