Following up on the series of quarterly Market Monitor reports sent out please find out a new report highlighting Value Share for top 20 smartphone brands through Q4 2014

Summary of the report

• Global handset market reached roughly US$110 Billion in wholesale revenues up 27% annually during Q4 2014.
• Smartphones contribute close to 97% of the total handset market by revenue.
• Smartphone market reached roughly US$107 Billion in revenues up 31% annually due to healthy smartphone shipments growth (+26% YoY)
• Overall smartphone industry ASP increased (+4% YoY) during the quarter driven by record iPhone sales. However most of the growth is still coming from sub-$200 smartphones and across emerging markets which is clearly evident from rise in revenue share of Chinese OEMs.
• Asia (including China) contributed to almost 45% of the global smartphone industry revenues and more than half of global smartphone industry volumes.
• Apple extended the lead over Samsung in Smartphone segment by Value and topped the list with roughly 48% share surpassing Samsung which captured 18% share.
• Samsung revenue share is down to 18%, lowest since CY 2012 in a single quarter. At its peak it captured 37% share during Q3 2013.
• This is mainly because Samsung’s revenues were down 20% annually and 2% sequentially due to dip in smartphone demand relative to the market growth.
• The top 5 OEMs captured close to three-fourths of the total industry smartphone revenues
• Meanwhile, Xiaomi’s revenue increased by almost 142% YoY and Huawei revenues reached a new high with close to 4% mark for the first time.
• If we leave out of Samsung, Apple generated more smartphone revenues than the next twenty smartphone brands combined in our rankings in Q4 2014

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