Over 90% of phones sold by US carriers are Samsung and iphones

[gurutek]

According to a market analysis performed by Wave7 Research, Apple and Samsung control over 90 percent of the United States smartphone market. According to the report, 94% of phones sold at Verizon and 91% of phone sold in T-Mobile stores were either a Samsung Galaxy or Apple iPhone.

During the holiday month of December, the Apple iPhone 11 was the top-selling phone among the four major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile). The top-selling Samsung phone was the Galaxy S10.

Part of the reason is many of the popular brands globally aren't available at US carrier stores. Motorola, LG, and Google phones do make an appearance, and even OnePlus sells the 7T Pro in T-Mobile stores, but these other brands don’t exactly fly off the shelves. Google’s Pixel phones made up 2-4% of sales in carriers stores with OnePlus at 2% of sales at T-Mobile stores.