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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.

Xiaomi will release the new Xiaomi 12 phone in China on December 28, TechRadar reports. It has not yet been confirmed how many models the new series from the Chinese manufacturer will have, but the company is expected to launch Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X, and Xiaomi 12 Pro immediately, while Xiaomi 12 Ultra and Xiaomi 12 mini will arrive on the market in just a few months.

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.

The White House confirmed that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had urged Brazil not to use Huawei Technologies equipment in developing its 5G telecommunications net-work.

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.

Samsung is still the leader in the smartphone market, however, for the first time in history, Chinese Xiaomi took second place in terms of sales, pulling ahead of Apple – according to reports from the analyst firm Canalys.

Chinese company Xiaomi has introduced its new wireless charging technology capable of charging a smartphone’s battery from zero to 100 percent in just eight minutes.

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.