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Samsung ended the year with a 19.4% share, followed by China's
Xiaomi, Oppo and Transsion, preliminary data from IDC's
Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker showed.
The change in ranking comes after a tough year that saw
consumers going slow on smartphone upgrades due to broader macro
uncertainty and high inflation.
A slower-than-expected recovery in China, the world's largest
smartphone market, also weighed on overall phone sales.
Apple and Transsion were the only brands in the top five to
record growth in shipments last year, when the market declined
3.2% to 1.17 billion units and hit a decade low.
Apple, however, is facing pressure in China from a resurgent
Huawei as well as from budget Chinese brands. The iPhone-maker
is offering rare discounts of as much as 5% on some models in
the country to attract customers.
(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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