{"id":451093,"date":"2026-02-05T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451093\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:49:12","slug":"omdia-apple-narrowly-beats-samsung-in-2025-honor-grows-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451093\/","title":{"rendered":"Omdia: Apple narrowly beats Samsung in 2025, Honor grows the most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from Omdia, Apple was the king of the smartphone world last year, with a record-breaking 240.6 million units shipped and a 19% market share. It very narrowly beat Samsung&#8217;s 239.1 million shipments. The Korean company also has 19% market share when you apply rounding. Interestingly, both Apple and Samsung increased their shipments by exactly 7% compared to 2024. The fastest growth among major makers came from Honor at 11%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770320950_795_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Omdia: Apple narrowly beats Samsung in 2025, shipping the most smartphones\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In third is Xiaomi with a 2% sales decline over 2024, at 165.4 million units shipped for a 13% market share. It&#8217;s followed by vivo with 105.3 million shipments, 8% market share, and 4% YoY growth. Oppo is in fifth with 100.7 million shipments, 8% market share, and a 3% sales decline compared to 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770320951_980_gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Omdia: Apple narrowly beats Samsung in 2025, shipping the most smartphones\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Transsion almost entered the top five, since it also has 8% market share, and it&#8217;s followed by Honor with 6%, Lenovo with 5%, Huawei with 4%, and Realme with 3%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770320952_860_gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"Omdia: Apple narrowly beats Samsung in 2025, shipping the most smartphones\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The market overall grew 2% in 2025 to 1.25 billion units shipped. All regions grew except for Greater China, which marginally declined due to &#8220;the fading effect of the national subsidy scheme&#8221;. Interestingly though, Apple grew 26% in Mainland China thanks to &#8220;stronger iPhone 17 series demand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omdia.tech.informa.com\/pr\/2026\/jan\/global-smartphone-market-grew-2percent-in-2025-while-memory-headwinds-set-the-stage-for-a-challenging-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to data from Omdia, Apple was the king of the smartphone world last year, with a record-breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-451093","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\/451093","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=451093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}