IDC released the third quarter global smartphone shipments preliminary survey. The report shows that the quarter global smartphone shipments reached 373.1 million, an increase of 2.7% over the same period last year and increase 7.4% compared to the previous quarter.Shipments of the top five mobile phone manufacturers compared to last year have achieved growth. Far ahead of the pack, Samsung shipped 83.3 million smartphone that increase 9.5%. S8, S8+ and other flagship models performance is still strong in the third quarter, and the new 6.3-inch Note8 also contributed.Apple ranked second in the third quarter of 46.7 million smartphone shipments, iPhone 8/8Plus contributed a lot of share, so that its shipments achieved a year-on-year growth of 2.6%. However, with the launch of the iPhone X in the fourth quarter, the market demand for the iPhone 8/8 Plus is likely to decline.The data of Huawei and OPPO data is 39.1 million and 30.7 million, which is not much difference. Mate 9 and P10 two flagship machine makes Huawei continue to maintain the growth in the high-end market, cheaper glory series also made a good response. Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and Mate 10 Porsche designs three models coming out in October, will be the highlights of the next quarter.In the third quarter, OPPO released a series of new machines in the Indian market. They have always attached importance to offline sales channels and also pay more attention to online sales this quarter, who participated in many e-commerce promotions. The report concludes that the full coverage of OPPO in the low, medium and high-end markets is the main reason they are able to continue their strong growth while the R11 series is also gaining popularity in the Chinese market and helping to further consolidate its market share.Forward from：199IT