Samsung hikes its US market share in Q1 while Pixel’s slice of American pie gets smaller

Everyone who took Smartphone 101 in school this past year could have told you that Apple and Samsung are numbers one and two in the States, respectively. But can you tell me which manufacturer is number three? Before we reveal the name of this company, we should point out that there is a huge drop off from Samsung’s second place 31% share of the U.S. smartphone shipments to the 9% owned by the third-place firm. The third-place firm is Motorola and the company’s share of smartphone shipments in the U.S. was up 1 percentage compared with the 8% it collected in Q1 2023.

TCL also showed a decline in U.S. smartphone shipments during Q1 2024 on a year-over-year basis. The company was responsible for 2% of U.S. smartphone shipments during Q1 2023 but Counterpoint did not reveal the lower share of shipments TCL contributed to U.S. phone shipments during the first quarter of 2023.