2016: Samsung in the first place with sales, Apple's second
2016 : Samsung in the first place with sales, Apple 's second Despite a difficult end of 2016 , Samsung remained the leading vendor of mobile ' smart ' by selling 308.5 million units last year , according to Strategy Analytics . Apple is in second place with only 215.5 million iPhone sold . However , higher sales prices enabled Apple profit most , about 80 percent of global profit and 44.9 billion dollars from 53.7 billion dollars of the total , they went into the pockets of the American company . In comparison , Samsung Mobile brought 14.6 percent or 8.3 billion dollars - a number no doubt influenced by the Galaxy Note 7 . Huawei is in third place in terms of market share . Honor series has sold 72.2 units while the line Ascend was sold for 65.7 million units