MOBILE DEVICES MONITOR - Q4 2014 (Vendor Shipments Technology)

Feb 17, 2015

Summarizing the landscape in Q4 2014 below:

Global mobile phone shipments crossed more than half a billion units for the first time ever growing a very healthy 12% annually, ending the year 2014 with more than 1.8 billion mobile phone shipments
LTE was the fastest growing segment as the total demand more than doubled compared to last year and crossing 180 million units in a quarter for the first time ever.
LTE shipment volumes has surpassed 2G GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 3G UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA to become the world’s leading cellular interface technology
Apple dominated the high-value LTE segment with a 34% share in Q4 2014 due to solid demand for its newly launched iPhone 6 & 6 Plus models
Apple & Samsung together captured 53% of the global LTE segment volumes down from 76% in Q4 2013 as Chinese brands took share away from incumbents (mostly Samsung) in the high growth China LTE market
Huawei was the third largest LTE mobile phone supplier during the quarter for the first time ahead of Lenovo and LG
China surpassed USA to become the top LTE market contributing to almost a quarter of the global LTE shipments
TD-SCDMA segment continued to shrink as most of the Chinese OEMs (Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo) have upgraded portfolio to LTE smartphones
In 3G UMTS/WCDMA segment, Samsung dominated in Q4 2014 with 22% share followed by Nokia, Alcatel One Touch and others

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