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Samsung Galaxy S5 Fails to Unseat Apple iPhone 5s as Best Selling Smartphone [Chart]

Posted July 15, 2014 at 2:31pm by iClarified · 15546 views
Apple’s iPhone 5s is still the bestselling smartphone in May 2014, 8 months after its launch last year. Samsung’s new flagship, Galaxy S5 comes in at second, reports Counterpointresearch.com.

According to Counterpoint’s channel survey across 35 countries, Apple’s iPhone 5s continues to be the bestselling phone in the world, a spot that many expected to be taken by Samsung’s Galaxy S 5. The highly anticipated Galaxy S5 comes in at second place but still a quite distant number two in terms of (sell through) unit sales. The iPhone 5c shipments continue to decline but Apple continued clearing excess inventory for the iPhone 5c during the month. apple iPhone 5c sales put it behind Samsung’s last year’s flagship Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note III.

We posted a similar report earlier this month which only looked at U.K. sales. This report has the iPhone 5s topping the charts for 35 countries.

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