Galaxy S9+ tops the global bestsellers list in April

Final updated: June 8th, 2018 at xix:11 UTC+01:00

According to the data from Counterpoint Research, Galaxy S9+ was the bestselling smartphone globally in April. Its smaller sibling, the Galaxy S9, came in second, pushing Apple'due south iPhone X to the 3rd spot. Strong sales in Asia Pacific and North American markets reportedly helped the Galaxy S9 series to snatch the tiptop rankings. Since April marks the showtime full calendar month of the Galaxy S9 duo's availability, information technology shouldn't be surprising to run across them dominate the sales charts.

Coming to the numbers, the written report says the Galaxy S9 and S9+ accounted for two.half-dozen% each of all global smartphone sales in April, occupying the commencement 2 spots (the written report seems to be rounding off the percentages). The iPhone Ten and iPhone viii+ grabbed the next ii spots with a market share of 2.3% each.

Apple still dominates the list

Xiaomi's Redmi 5A and Redmi 5 Plus/Annotation 5 also fabricated it to the bestsellers list with 1.5 percent and 1.4 percent marketplace shares respectively. What makes Xiaomi'southward functioning impressive is that unlike Samsung and Apple, the company currently operates only in a select few markets and is still able to make a mark in the global sales rankings.

Apart from the current Galaxy flagships, last twelvemonth's Galaxy S8 is the merely other Samsung device on the list. Overall, Apple dominates the bestsellers list with v models, followed by three devices from Samsung and 2 from Xiaomi.

Practice remember, equally with any other market reports, these findings may not be entirely accurate and thus shouldn't exist taken at face value.