Samsung tops global foldable phone shipments in Q3: report

Samsung Electronics solidified its top position in the global foldable smartphone market in the third quarter, industry data showed Saturday. Samsung accounted for 64 percent of all global shipments of foldable smartphones in the July-September period, up 8 percentage points from a year ago, according to a report from Counterpoint Research, a market tracker. The company further widened its gap with China's Huawei Technologies Co., whose market share remained unchanged from a year ago at 15 percent during the cited period, the report said. Motorola Mobility LLC. ranked third with a 7 percent market share, followed by China's Honor Device Co. at 4 percent, Vivo Mobile Communications Co. at 4 percent and Xiaomi Corp. at 2 percent. "Global shipments of foldable smartphones went up 14 percent on-year and climbed to a record quarterly high, led by the popularity of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 series," the report said. Foldable smartphones accounted for 2.5 percent of all smartphone shipments made in the third quarter this year, according to the report. Meanwhile, the market tracker expected the glWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times