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Global smartphone sales fell by six percent in the third quarter in relation to the same period last year, but rose at the same rate compared to the second quarter. A total of 342 million smartphones were shipped worldwide in the three months from July to the end of September.

Korean tech giant Samsung, global leader in the smartphone market, issued a relatively brief press release announcing the company’s reorganization and new appointments. So they announced the merger of two major divisions – one dealing with mobile communications and the other in charge of consumer electronics and IT.

Samsung, global leader on the smartphone market, has seriously thwarted the plans of its biggest competitors in the smartwatch segment. Apple continues to sell the most smartwatches in the world, according to sales data from the third quarter, but its share is declining as Samsung’s is on the rise.

Samsung retained the top spot in global smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2021, but things could heat up as we enter the final quarter of the year, when most smartphones will be sold. Samsung currently holds 30 percent of the European market share.

The shipment volume of 5G smartphones in China jumped by 80 percent in the first eight months of the year, as the Chinese ordered 168 million 5G mobile phones by the end of August.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total number of 5G connections will reach 3.2 billion by 2026, recording a growth rate of 940%.

In just three months, from April to the end of June, 50.1 million smartphones were sold in Europe, so total sales increased by a whopping 14 percent compared to the same period in 2020.

Pandemic notwithstanding, some smartphone manufacturers have recorded significant growth in sales on the domestic market.

The latest research by Strategy Analytics shows that global smartphone shipments surged to 340 million in the first three months of 2021, up by 24 percent year-over year and the highest growth since 2015.

According to analysts, the renewed US–Japan alliance to take on China’s dominance in 5G is an unrealistic illusion that is doomed to fail, given Chinese development of 5G infrastructure and their huge domestic application market.