Strategy Analytics tracked global smartphone shipments (sell in) improved +6% YoY in October 2017 mainly due to new models launched from Huawei, Xiaomi and others. Sales (sell through) to end users posted a +5% annual growth thanks to ongoing improved economic climate in selected regions and price cut of some newly launched models from Apple, Samsung and LG etc. Moreover, inventory reduced from last month. Samsung top both shipments and sales chart, followed by Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo. This report tracks global smartphone monthly shipments (sell in), sales (sell through) and inventory volumes / ratio by 28 of the world's largest vendors from January 2016 to October 2017. The report is a valuable tool for OEMs, component makers, software developers, operators and other stakeholders to track key OEMs inventory level and support their planning activities.