Huawei's strong Q2 stymies both Apple and Samsung in the global smartphone market

While Apple shipped more iPhones for the second quarter of 2014 than it shipped a year earlier, and Samsung shipped fewer smartphones than it did in the same quarter last year, neither company was the big story in the period. According to IDC's latest breakdown of smartphone vendors' global marketshare, a pair of Chinese firms made the most noise in the April through June period.



Samsung remained on top, shipping 74.3 million smartphones for Q2 2014. That was a 3 million unit decline from last year's second quarter. The 3.9% decline left the Korean company with a 25.2% share of the global ...