iPhone 14 Pro Max is the company's flagship offering (Image credit: Nandagopal Rajan/The Indian Express)
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iPhone 14 Pro Max crowned as the most shipped smartphone of 2023
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Despite the dip in the overall smartphone shipment numbers in 2023, Apple continues to shine. According to Omdia, a technology research group, the iPhone 14 Pro Max is currently the most shipped smartphone of 2023.
According to the report, Apple has shipped over 26.5 million units of the iPhone 14 Pro Max (review), making it the highest-selling smartphone of 2023. Similarly, the iPhone 14 Pro holds the second position with a shipment size of 21 million. Even the third and fourth highest-selling smartphones of 2023 — the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 13 — belong to Apple. The company has shipped 16.5 million iPhone 14 units and 15.5 million iPhone 13 units until in the first half of 2023.
Highest selling smartphones of 2023 (Image credit: Omdia)
Interestingly, the 10th most shipped smartphone of this year is the iPhone 11, which was originally launched in 2019. The company has sold over 6.9 million units of the iPhone 11.
Samsung has managed to sell over 9.6 million units of its latest flagship, the Galaxy S23 Ultra (review) smartphone. Additionally, the company has sold 12.4 million units of the Galaxy A14, a budget 4G smartphone from Samsung.
While the overall demand for the smartphone market has declined, as per this report, there seems to be a steady demand for high-end flagship smartphones, especially from brands like Apple. This is also one of the reasons why the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro series of devices could receive a price hike. CEO Tim Cook claims that a “price rise is not an issue” while answering a query regarding the increase in the average sale price of iPhones.
