Global annual handset shipment growth was once again down sharply in Q4 2022. Global 5G smartphone shipments are growing, but that improvement is not enough to make up for steep declines in 4G LTE, 2G and the nearly dead 3G markets. Apple captured the top spot in 5G and took the lead in overall global handset shipments. In our extensive report, Strategy Analytics provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by the major 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G protocols, for the top +30 vendors, from 2001 to Q4 2022.