During the first quarter of 2025, Apple iPhone 16 was the best -selling smartphone in the world, according to the estimates provided by Counterpoint Research. After the 16 iphone, the iPhone 16 pro Max, IPhone 16 pro and the iPhone 15 were the other four smartphones. Samsung’s Galaxy A16 5G took fifth place in the ranking.
Last year, it was Apple’s pro iphone He was the best seller. In the first quarter of 2024, the IPhone 15 Pro Max was the best -selling smartphone, narrowly beating the 15 iphone.
Apple has reduced the gap between its standard smartphones and its pro range in terms of performance and set of features. The 16 iPhone has an A18 chip which is almost as fast as the A18 Pro in the iphone 16 Pro Max, and it also has the same action button and the camera button.
Among the 10 best smartphones best sold in the first quarter of 2025, Apple obtained five. The first four, then 10th place with the 16 Plus iphone. The flagship smartphone of Samsung, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, took 7th place, while the other smartphones on the list are options at lower cost.
$ 600 + iPhone 16th was only on sale for part of the quarter, but he took sixth place in the list of the best 10 of Counterpoint for March 2025, which was the first full month that it was available for purchase. The 16th iphone should sell better during its first year than the iPhone is done during its first year thanks to its set of high -end features.
The Counterpoint report focuses on the classification rather than on unit sales, and although it does not decompose sales by country, it says that the 16 iPhone has sold particularly well in Japan and the Middle East and Africa (MEA). In China, iphone 16 Pro and Pro Max suffered from government grants promoting lower cost devices and competition from Chinese companies like Huawei.
