--FILE--A Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone is displayed at a Samsung store in Hangzhou city, east Chinas Zhejiang province, 11 April 2014. Global smartphone market share of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of the smart device, dropped in the third quarter on rising Chinese rivals, including Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo, an industry data showed Tuesday (16 December 2014). Samsung's global smartphone sales were 73.21 million in the third quarter, making up 24.4 percent of the total, according to market tracker Gartner. The South Korean company maintained the No.1 position, but its market share was down 7.7 percentage points from a year earlier. The decline in Samsung's market share came as Chinese manufacturers increased their shares. Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo posted a global market share of 5.3 percent, 5.2 percent and 5 percent each, ranking third to fifth in the global smartphone market.
