Our Country Share Tracker (CST) service recently published its Global Smartphone Shipments by Model report.

CST clients can click here to access the full report.

In the report, Samsung continued to dominate the market, overtaking Apple with numerous popular models like the Galaxy S4.

Interestingly, Huawei's Ascend family become the no.5 most popular smartphone sub-brand worldwide this quarter for the first time ever. Solid marketing at home in China is driving shipments. The Chinese vendor is quietly getting the hang of building famous sub-brands.