Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/07
By: Jeffrey Wu

Taipei, Sept. 7 (CNA) Taiwan’s HTC Corp. (宏達電) and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics

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Co. became the only two top-tier smartphone vendors in the United States that registered falling market shares in the three months ended in July.

According to a report published on Sept. 3 by research firm comScore Inc., HTC remained the fifth-largest smartphone vendor in the U.S. with a 3.5 percent share from May to July, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous three-month period.

Samsung saw its market share drop by 1.3 percentage points — the sharpest decline among the top five players — to 27.3 percent, ranking the company in second behind only Apple Inc., which expanded its market share by 1.1 percentage points to 44.2 percent.      [FULL  STORY]