{"id":224090,"date":"2025-10-14T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:43:08","slug":"iphone-17-preorders-spike-and-overall-phone-sales-arent-slowing-down-despite-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224090\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 17 Preorders Spike and Overall Phone Sales Aren’t Slowing Down Despite Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite tariffs and market uncertainty, global\u00a0smartphone<\/a>\u00a0shipments increased 2.6% in the third quarter of 2025, compared to the same time last year, according to the International Data Corporation. Additionally, preorders for the\u00a0iPhone 17<\/a>, which launched last month, outpaced last year’s iPhone 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These increased sales include premium phones like the latest iPhones and Samsung foldables<\/a>, suggesting yet again that pricier phones still sell in periods of economic strain. It’s a remarkable achievement, says IDC senior research director Nabila Popal, citing shrewd financing options as the reason people keep buying these high-end phones, which cost anywhere from $800 to nearly $2,000.<\/p>\n

“[Phone makers] have mastered the art of innovation not only in hardware and software to entice upgrades but also in removing purchase friction. They have flawlessly combined cutting-edge devices with innovative financing models and aggressive trade-in programs that make the upgrading decision a ‘no-brainer’ for consumers,” Popal said in an IDC press release.<\/p>\n

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Watch this: The iPhone 17 Pro Max Has Incredible Battery Life\n <\/p>\n

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Apple sold 58.6 million iPhones<\/a> this quarter, an increase of 2.9% over the same period in 2024, with more preorders for the iPhone 17 series than its predecessor. But Samsung wasn’t far behind, with its Galaxy Z Fold 7<\/a> and Galaxy Z Flip 7<\/a> selling better than all of the company’s prior foldables. The company still reigns atop the phone market with 61.4 million phones sold, representing 19% of the market in the third quarter of this year — an increase of 6.3% from the same period last year. Meanwhile, Apple lands slightly behind Samsung with 18.2% market share this quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The other phone makers trailing Apple and Samsung are, in order: Xiaomi, with 13.5% of the market; Transsion, with 9%; and Vivo with 8.9%. The remaining companies in the phones industry, from Chinese stalwarts like Oppo and Honor to Motorola and Google, make up the remaining 31.4% of the market for the quarter. All told, 322.7 million phones were sold, up from 314.6 million in the third quarter of 2024, according to IDC.<\/p>\n

IDC’s findings for the third quarter continue the small but steady growth of phone sales over the year, including a modest 1% increase<\/a> in the preceding three months — which includes the April deadline when President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs. In the second quarter, IDC cited midrange devices like Samsung’s Galaxy A36<\/a> and other phones that started incorporating AI. But even persistent tariffs haven’t slowed down people’s appetites for pricier phones in the third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite tariffs and market uncertainty, global\u00a0smartphone\u00a0shipments increased 2.6% in the third quarter of 2025, compared to the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-224090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}