Lenovo Is Now World's Third Biggest Smartphone Maker Title

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Lenovo pushed LG aside in the third quarter to become the number three global smartphone maker for the first time. 

Lenovo's smartphone sales grew to 12.9 million units, up a whopping 84.5 percent year over year, thanks to a surge in sales from the Chinese market. In the same period last year, Lenovo had 4.1 percent of the global market but in 2013, the company brought down 5.1 percent of the market. "Lenovo continues to rely heavily on its home market, which represents more than 95 percent of its overall mobile phone sales. This could limit its growth after 2014, when the Chinese market is expected to decelerate," said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner. Earlier this year, Lenovo expressed interest in broadening its mobile sector by looking into acquiring BlackBerry. The Canadian government stepped in and stopped that bid before it even started citing security concerns over handing over BlackBerry to a Chinese company. 

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In the top two spots for smartphones were, unsurprisingly, Samsung and Apple in first and second respectively. In the third quarter, Samsung has 32.1 percent of the market, the same share it had last year, selling a whopping 80.3 million devices. Apple's share declined slightly from last year from 14.3 percent of the market to 12.1 percent but still shipped 30.3 million iPhones in the quarter. Other companies in the top ten were LG, Huawei, and Nokia at four, five, and eight respectively. In the overall mobile phone market, meaning more than just smartphones, Lenono ranked seventh. 

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Samsung Galaxy S4 has set a World Record Sales

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In just one month, the Samsung Galaxy S4 can boast over 10 million sales. 

It's been a good moth for Samsung. After the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4, users went crazy for it. It was launched on April 27, and less than a month later the phone had set a new world record. Who held the record prior to this? Samsung, of course, not surprisingly with its Galaxy S3. That record had been hitting the 10 million sales mark within 50 days, a time which the S4 almost cut in half. "On behalf of Samsung, I would like to thank the millions of customers around the world who have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S4," stated Samsung chief executive J.K. Shin. 

On the official Samsung blog, the company celebrates with a post entitled "Galaxy S4 Hits 10 Million Milestone in First Month." The blog announced more rollouts in additional countries as well as new colors coming for the device, including "Blue Arctic and Red Aurora, followed by Purple Mirage and Brown Autumn." The closest rival of the S4, the HTC One, sold 5 million units within its first month, claiming only half of the sales of Samsung. This places Samsung in a very comfortable lead for the time being. It is also rumored that Samsung is developing a "Galaxy S4 Active" which will be hyper-durable, but there is as of now no official word from Samsung on this model.  Retweet this story