Like every year, the market analyst company known as Counterpoint Research has published the 10 best-selling mobile phones of the year throughout the first quarter of 2024. The list is made up solely and exclusively of Apple and Samsung models, although the latter is the which leads the Android classification with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, the best seller so far this year.
Samsung has not stopped bursting records with the new Galaxy S24 and is not for less. The presence of AI functions combined with support for 7 years of Android updates has been an additional incentive for Android users and surely some who have switched from iPhone to the Google ecosystem. Let’s take a closer look at the Counterpoint Research list.
The success of the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
That a 1,000 euro mobile phone is the best seller of the moment may seem disproportionate, but it is something more common than it seems and is seen every year with Apple usually dominating sales, as is the case on this occasion with the iPhone 15 Pro Max . Now Samsung has managed occupy a large part of the market that owned the American brand with nothing more and nothing less than with its top of the range sneaking into the top 5 best-selling mobile phones. He Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra it’s purchasable from about 1,100 euros Currently, if you take advantage of discounts, although in reality it has a launch price of around 1,500 euros, so what Samsung has achieved is a milestone because it is usually a segment dominated by Apple and nothing else.
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra occupies fifth position in the table of best-selling mobile phones and the first of android. This is behind the iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 14 respectively, which lead the classification. Samsung is not far behind and also has 4 more mobile phones among those with the most sales with the exception of the already mentioned Galaxy S24 Ultra and they are:
- Samsung Galaxy A15 5G in sixth position.
- Galaxy A54 in seventh position.
- Galaxy S24 in ninth position.
- Galaxy A34 in tenth position.
Just because Apple occupies the top positions in the table does not mean that it is a better brand than Samsung. It must be taken into account that the Korean company has a much broader catalog of releaseswhich causes sales to be divided among all existing models, thus fragmenting the market.
The results of the market study are very similar to last year as can be seen in the list, since both Samsung and Apple also have 5 mobile phones each among the best sellers of the year. The difference is that we see how Samsung’s Ultra model has become the smartphone with the most sales and being an Android device worth almost 1,500 euros, it is an attack on Apple and its smartphones. The leap in quality of the Asian brand thanks to AI and Android has been noticed, managing to stand up to Apple by being the only Android brand that has managed to make a place for itself on this list, and in what way.