Kantar: Apple leads US smartphone race, Samsung tops EU5

01 March, 2016
The iPhone maker is also the most preferred choice in the urban China region, followed by Huawei and Samsung.

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AppleBoyLovesIphone, 01 Mar 2016I cant wait for the next Iphone which is iphone 7. were hop... morelol, live in hope...

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    • 11 Mar 2016

    Anonymous, 01 Mar 2016Apple is number 1 in rest of China too. But its easy to col... moreI would highly doubt this....

    Urban is indicating areas with employment and higher income (who have necessary cashflow to buy better products), I am pretty sure when you are earning $2 a day, you are not buying Sony and Apple products. At least Sony has lower price point items (as does Moto and HTC, Samsung etc) otherwise cheaper upstart brands and locally made stuff (maybe not even available on the world market) might change/skew the data.

    India is getting systems in place to sell other world markets second hand Apple products.
    Perhaps they have become such a status symbol that people prefer to be seen wit h Apple, or perhaps they are long lasting products that, with a little refurbishment can easily be resold and will continue to perform.
    Heck maybe iOS just runs so efficiently on older hardware that second hand units makes good resale sense.

    I kinda think it is the status symbol aspect, but, truly they are recognised as a reliable and premium part.

    Seems like an article to build brand recognition and I question who commissioned this, and why... Clearly whoever commissioned this found data they wanted to share,.. and here 'tis!

      amed, 01 Mar 2016i consider eu = 5 countries 5 out of 7 areas show samsung ... moreUS consists of 50 states. Very wise people indeed!

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        AnonD-454153, 02 Mar 2016Iphone i China most popular ? i think its fake ,most of the... moreYeah because this is what you do for a living right?

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          • 03 Mar 2016

          1st, 2nd, 1st Pretty decent I'd say ;) It's also important for most of you reading this to note, that India wasn't included in this list... So deflate your over inflated ego's with your even larger population.

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            • 03 Mar 2016

            im just not a fan of surveys, there just to easy to manipulate. they should just be called rumor mill and nothing more. because it is way to eay for a company to skew the results with random sampling. geography and everything plays into the outcome. I could conduct a survey of 1000 randomly sampled people living in cupertino working for apple about what there next smart phone is going to be. could you guess the result? then i could call it a random sampling and apply it across entire areas and call it the norm.

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              • 02 Mar 2016

              AnonD-364786, 02 Mar 2016samsung copies everyone .. full stopSorry man but everyone is copying everyone! Iphone is copying htc. huawei is copying lg and so on so don't hate on samsung. And now xiaomi is copying samsung for the dual edge on the back. So why don't you keep your hate to your self. Do you see me hate on apple. They have good phones but SERIOUSLY 16 gb and no sd-card. WOW that sucks....

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                • 02 Mar 2016

                Iphone i China most popular ? i think its fake ,most of the phones are huawei ,mi ,samsung and than apple

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                  • 02 Mar 2016

                  Linas, 02 Mar 2016Samsung copies crapple, crapple copies Samsung. That is bus... moreYou are a business savant. Why are you wasting your talent here?

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                    Linas, 02 Mar 2016Samsung copies crapple, crapple copies Samsung. That is bus... moresamsung copies everyone .. full stop

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                      • 02 Mar 2016

                      the US and China are obviously biased towards their home brands leaving the EU as the only unbiased market. Alas - Samsung is the best mobile phone.

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                        • 02 Mar 2016

                        AnonD-364786, 02 Mar 2016samsung copies that third rated brand blindly.. lolSamsung copies crapple, crapple copies Samsung. That is business.. the end of story - Samsung makes all the technology innovations and produces majority of parts including for iPhones. even the ones they don't produce are licensed for somebody else to produce. and apple is just empty brand name without technology on board, just some cheap 3 eyars old parts and fancy marketing.

                          Anonymous, 02 Mar 2016Android phones has all the new features, except for the cra... moreYes? Like I can pay with Spay on note5 in whole EU.

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                            Hope Sony phones do well with new X series!

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                              onnuku, 01 Mar 2016third rated brand by third rated steve jobs [licked the jap... moresamsung copies that third rated brand blindly.. lol

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                                for me samsung is number 1

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                                  Alexander, 01 Mar 2016It is sad to see that SONY smartphones falls and the rise o... morepeople more happy with samsung
                                  they care and listen to their customers

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                                    • 02 Mar 2016

                                    I mean where is Swedka? Sweden should be covered it's like bigger then Italy and Spain for sure nowdays.

                                    P.S. : I am not Swedesh not even European)

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                                      • 02 Mar 2016

                                      vrvly, 01 Mar 2016EU: While I know some people who got iphone, they mostly bu... moreAndroid phones has all the new features, except for the crappy, useless & gimmicky 3d touch

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                                        • 02 Mar 2016

                                        china brand huawei xiomi will take place htc and sony soon