These Are the Best-Selling Mobiles in the World so Far From 2026: Apple and Samsung Top the List
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Apple and Samsung lead global mobile sales in 2026. iPhone 17 tops the list followed by iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, according to Counterpoint Research.
This seems like a big win for Samsung: in the second quarter of this year, the Samsung S26 Ultra was the best-selling Android smartphone, according to Counterpoint. More specifically, the top 10 best-selling phones in the world in Q2 are as follows: As usual, Apple dominates this top with 5 models, practically all of them it produces, but that's pretty much how it is every year. Plus, they're all expensive models, so Apple remains the big winner…
Counterpoint looks at a difficult two-year period: Apple should limit the decline, while Chinese producers would suffer more from the increase in costs. Expected recovery from 2028, later supported also by the 6G cycle The article Smartphone, market in decrease of 14% in 2026: Samsung towards the record comes from CorCom.
Counterpoint's analysis firm publishes the world's top 10 smartphone sales in the second quarter of 2026. In a morose market, driven by the rise in component prices, only two manufacturers shoot [...]
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