Global annual handset shipment growth was once again down, in Q2 2023. Global 5G smartphone shipments are still (slowly) 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 while Samsung leads 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 +50 vendors, from 2001 to Q2 2023.