Narrative: Q3 2024 Global Handset Shipments by Technology
Explore key trends: Q3 2024 saw global handset growth, led by 5G gains, with Apple topping 5G and Samsung leading overall shipments.
Global annual handset shipment growth was once again up, in Q3 2024. Global 5G smartphone shipments are growing, and that improvement is enough to make up for declines in 4G LTE, 2G and the nearly dead 3G markets. Apple captured the top spot in global 5G handset shipments while Samsung leads in overall global handset shipments. In our extensive report, TechInsights provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by the major 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G protocols, for the top +50 vendors, from 2001 to Q3 2024.