According to new research from our WDS (Devices) service, global LTE mobile phone shipments surged an impressive +120% YoY in Q4 2014. Growth was driven by intense demand for Apple's new 4G iPhone 6 phablets.

Meanwhile, the 3G TD-SCDMA category in China shrank dramatically, and the CDMA segment worldwide continued to fade. Lenovo retained first place in TD-SCDMA, but it is struggling in LTE.

In our extensive report -- available to clients here -- Strategy Analytics provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by nine major 2G, 3G and 4G protocols, for the top 30 hardware vendors, from 2001 to Q4 2014.