The worldwide mobile phone market grew 2.4% year on year in the third quarter of 2012 (Q3 2012), driven by Samsung and Apple as market leaders as Nokia dropped off the top five list of smartphone vendors. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 444.5m mobile phones in Q3 2012 compared to 434.1 m units in Q3 2011. In terms of market performance, Nokia sales continued to decline, helped by the rise of Samsung and Apple globally and high-growth vendors like Huawei in China.
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