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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Xiaomi takes top two slots on India’s list of best-selling 2017 smartphones

Samsung may have been India's top overall 2017 smartphone vendor, but Xiaomi won the final quarter, also leading the full-year model popularity chart.

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‘Bezel-less’ smartphones drove record growth for average prices during Q4 2017

Global smartphone sales only achieved minor growth during Q4 2017, according to GfK market research, but average smartphone prices surged at a remarkable pace.

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Samsung refuses to concede India smartphone crown, claiming victory in sales to end users

Xiaomi may have surpassed Samsung in Q4 2017 smartphone shipments in India, but the world's number one mobile device vendor was also the region's champ in actual sales to customers.

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Samsung lost both India’s smartphone and feature phone crown in Q4 2017

India's extremely important smartphone market was dominated by Xiaomi rather than Samsung during the final quarter of last year, while Reliance Jio won the local feature phone trophy.

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Survey says iPhone X was less popular than small iPhone 8 in the US during Q4

The iPhone X wasn't Apple's best-sold mobile device between October and December 2017 in the US, according to the latest CIRP report.

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Apple topped the Q4 2017 US smartphone activation charts, ahead of Samsung and LG

Apple is number one in CIRP's Q4 2017 US smartphone activation rankings, surging from a 34 percent share during the final three months of 2016 to an impressive 39 percent.

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OPPO R9s tops China’s best-selling 2017 smartphones list, followed by iPhone 7 Plus

Apple was one of China's top performers in overall 2017 smartphone sales volume, with the iPhone 7 Plus ranked second and iPhone 7 fifth on the best-selling model list.

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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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Samsung will probably lose some 2018 smartphone market share, unlike Apple or Huawei

Samsung should continue to dominate the global smartphone market next year, but Apple and Huawei are expected to start narrowing the gap.

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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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HP still dominates as Windows PC OEM, Surface Pro 4 most popular from Microsoft

Meanwhile, the Surface Pro (2017) is getting adopted at a nice clip while the Surface Laptop is just starting to creak through the floorboards.

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Seven weeks in, ‘only’ 52 percent of active iPhones and iPads run iOS 11

The majority of iDevice users are already on iOS 11, but the latest platform version isn't spreading anywhere near as fast as iOS 10 and 9.

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Global tablet shipments were down again in Q3 2017, but most top vendors were up

There's no recovery in sight for worldwide tablet shipments, based on IDC's latest research, even though the leading OEMs aren't doing so bad.

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