Worldwide mobile phone sales have increased during the second quarter of 2013 with Samsung maintaining the top position.
According to information technology research and advisory company Gartner, Inc., Samsung kept its No. 1 position as the top smartphone sales vendor in the world.
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The South Korean-based company received a market share of 31.7 percent for the smartphone sales. The Samsung market share percentage for the second quarter of 2013 is an increase of 2 percent from the same period in 2012.
Samsung reportedly sold 71.3 million units, up from the 45.6 million units from 2012's second quarter.
While Samsung saw a minor gain in its smartphone sales market share, Apple lost 4.6 percent from the second quarter of 2012. Gartner's statistics have held Apple at second place with 14.2 percent, down from last year's 18.8 percent.
Despite the dip in the smartphone sales market share, Apple did sell more devices than 2012's second quarter with approximately 32 million units to 29 million units, which represents a 10 percent increase.
LG Electronics increased its position, dethroning ZTE for third place. LG Electronics saw its smartphone sales market share increase from 3.8 percent to 5.1 percent. In terms of smartphone units, LG Electronics sold 11.4 million units, an increase from 5.8 million units from the second period in 2012.
Lenovo also bettered its figures, and topped ZTE for fourth place. Lenovo narrowly beat ZTE with 4.7 percent of the smartphone market share to 4.3 percent. In comparison to the second quarter last year, ZTE accounted for 4.1 percent to Lenovo's 2.8 percent.
Overall in the mobile phone market, 435 million units were sold during the second quarter this year. The increase represents a 3.6 percent spike from the same period last year. Users with smartphones also topped feature phones. Worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 225 million units to 210 million units for feature phones.
"Smartphones accounted for 51.8 percent of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in smartphone sales surpassing feature phone sales for the first time," said Gartner Principal Research analyst Anshul Gupta.
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