Kantar sees Xiaomi and Huawei rising in major European markets, iPhone X topping Chinese sales

According to the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report, Xiaomi and Huawei's smartphone sales are rapidly growing in Europe's top five markets, while Apple is doing solid business in China.

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Kantar ranks iPhone X in the top three best-selling devices of Q4 across all key markets

Apple's iPhone X ruled the October - December 2018 charts in Urban China, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech data, also selling very well in Europe, Japan, Australia and the US.

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Kantar sees the iPhone X dominating November smartphone sales in the UK, China and Japan

Ahead of a somewhat surprising December demand slowdown, Apple's iPhone X reportedly crushed the competition in the month of November, at least across three major global markets.

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Kantar’s latest smartphone sales report highlights iOS struggle ahead of iPhone X launch

The August - October 2017 timeframe wasn't particularly fruitful for Apple in global smartphone sales, as the iPhone X launched in early November.

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Kantar: Samsung just had three great months in the UK, Apple impressed in the US smartphone market

According to the latest Kantar Worldpanel research, Samsung dominated June - August 2017 smartphone sales in the UK, while Apple reported strong US growth.

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Kantar doesn’t yet see the Galaxy S8 as US blockbuster, iPhone 7 still reigns supreme

It's still premature to judge the long-term success of the Galaxy S8 duo, but Samsung's latest flagships didn't get off to the greatest start stateside.

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Latest Kantar smartphone market study confirms iOS trouble in China, Android domination worldwide

Unsurprisingly, Android continues to dominate every important smartphone market, according to Kantar Worldpanel research, from China to US to Spain.

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Kantar sees iOS on the decline in China, Android stateside, Windows everywhere

Apple never performs too well during the summer in the always competitive smartphone landscape, and with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus so quickly out of steam, you may have expected to hear of a massive worldwide decline in iOS device popularity between June and August 2016.But the iPhone SE probably surpassed analyst forecasts, especially in markets like the UK, where it was actually the number one sold handheld overall in the aforementioned period, ...

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Kantar: iOS shows growth in ‘most regions’ ahead of iPhone 7 launch, Android loses a little US ground

The worldwide smartphone OS sales numbers for the three-month period ending July 2016 are in, and as always, Android comfortably dominates every single important market, with iOS a distant second across the board, and Windows Phone (or Mobile) plunging further down towards obsolescence.But interestingly enough, Kantar Worldpanel ComTech claims, Apple managed to achieve year-on-year growth in most regions, including the US, EU5, and Australia, despite

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Kantar: iPhones return to growth in key markets during Q2, LG thrives stateside

Despite the generally bleak picture painted by most market research companies and industry analysts when it comes to recent iPhone box-office numbers and Apple’s realistic expectations going forward, it’s not all doom and gloom for the world’s enduring top mobile OEM in terms of actual financial gains.Not only does Cupertino ...

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Android sales continue to surge worldwide, iPhones are doing relatively well too

The latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech numbers are in, and as always, both Google and Apple can see bright spots and negatives in the box-office feats of smartphones running the two most popular operating systems.But there are arguably more positives to notice in the March-to-May sales results of Android handsets, which not only dominated the charts from EU5 markets to the US and China, also reporting yearly growth essentially everywhere.Check that, it’s literally everywhere, the gains compared ...

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Kantar measured peak Android market share in Q1

We’re about to end the second calendar quarter of 2016 and Kantar Worldpanel is putting out numbers for the first quarter. With numbers like these, it takes time to make sure they’re right. And we’d wonder how right these figures can’t be.Android has gotten some major annual gains in market share across the world. In the US, it’s a 5.2 basis point jump to 67.6 percent. The platform’s grown by 5.4 points in China to 78.8 percent. In the markets of Great ...

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iOS, Windows global market share slump during the holidays

Another edition of Kantar Worldpanel’s Smartphone OS Market Share Data report has come out and this one’s a doozy for both iOS and Windows. The numbers cover the holiday quarter of 2015 and they seem to show an overall decline in interest with Windows-based phones and iPhones.

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Motorola, not Lenovo, is third-most preferred smartphone brand in US

As if the title didn’t hook enough bait, people aren’t buying the phones we’re looking at.Kantar Worldpanel posted a comprehensive review of some of the major trends going on in the smartphone markets these days — specifically, the US, EU’s biggest five economies and urbanized China. We’ll zoom in first to the brand preference figures.Of course, Apple and Samsung rule the board in some way. The EU5 have Samsung square on top at 37 percent while Apple is at 29 percent. China’s top three come in descending order to

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