Narrative : Global Handset Market by Technology Q4 2024

TechInsights' in-depth report covers Q4 2024 growth, the rise of 5G, and Apple's market leadership. Get comprehensive data on 2G–5G shipments from 2001 to today.

Global annual handset shipment growth was once again up, in Q4 2024. Global 5G smartphone shipments are growing, and that improvement is enough to make up for declines in 4G LTE, 2G and the nearly dead 3G markets. Apple captured the top spot in global 5G handset and leads in overall global handset shipments. In our extensive report, TechInsights provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by the major 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G protocols, for the top +50 vendors, from 2001 to Q4 2024.

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