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5 of top 10 best-selling phones are iPhones, report reveals

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Fresh off Hong Kong is a report that reveals the top 10 best-selling smartphones in the world.

According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Pulse December Edition, one brand dominated the list of bestsellers in November 2017.

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Apple — having just released three iPhones — outperformed other handsets sales-wise, with all three new devices taking the first, second, and third spots. The iPhone X topped the charts with a market share of 6.6 percent despite its prohibitive price. The Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus followed suit with their respective 4.8 percent and 2.8 percent market shares.

Apple — having just released the iPhone X, 8, and 8 Plus — outperformed other handsets sales-wise, with all three new devices taking the first, second, and third spots.

Two other iDevices — the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 6 — landed on the chart-busters. Check out the image below.

Top 10 best-selling smartphones in the world

World’s top 10 best-selling smartphones in November 2017, according to market-research firm Counterpoint

Smartphones from Samsung, Vivo, and OPPO made it to the list, too. The only large brand which did not figure here was Huawei. But that does not mean that the Chinese company did not perform well overall. In fact, Counterpoint said that Huawei, along with Apple and Samsung, had healthy double-digit percentage growth annually.

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OPPO and Vivo, on the other hand, both grew moderately; the two were affected by slow Chinese macro-economic conditions.

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Editor-in-chief: Alora Uy Guerrero has 22 years of experience as an editor for print and digital publications such as Yahoo. She took time off journalism to manage OPPO’s digital-marketing campaigns. When not busy with her babies, she’s working on Revü, a passion project — or probably traveling or obsessing over her favorite bands, movies, TV shows, and basketball teams.