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Global Smartphone Sales to End Users Jumped 7% in Q4, Gartner Says

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 432 million units in Q4, up 7 percent over the year-ago quarter, Gartner said in a Wednesday report. Q4 saw Apple leapfrog past Samsung to secure the No. 1 global smartphone vendor…

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position, Gartner said. It was the second straight quarter in which Samsung “has delivered falling quarterly smartphone sales," the researcher said. Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in Q4 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year, it said.