Tracker: Global Handset Market by Technology Q1 2025

Get key insights into Q1 2025 global handset shipments, where 5G growth wasn't enough to offset declines in older technologies. See how Apple led in 5G while Samsung topped overall shipments, with data spanning 2001 to today.

Global annual handset shipment growth was down in Q1 2025. Global 5G smartphone shipments are growing, but that improvement was not enough to make up for declines in 4G LTE, 2G and the nearly dead 3G markets.  Apple captured the top spot in global 5G handset while Samsung leads in overall global handset shipments.  In our extensive report, TechInsights provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by the major 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G protocols, for the top +50 vendors, from 2001 to Q1 2025.