{"id":257560,"date":"2026-05-28T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:55:17","slug":"the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway\/","title":{"rendered":"The US phone market struggled in Q1, but one Android maker made serious headway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway\">The US phone market struggled in Q1, but one Android maker made serious headway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway\">https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/phones\/the-us-phone-market-struggled-in-q1-but-one-android-maker-made-serious-headway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 05:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidcentral.com\">www.androidcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-you-need-to-know-3\">What you need to know<\/h2>\n<ul id=\"elk-9932993a-7813-425b-958d-e505e2c44f7f\">\n<li>Research company, Omdia, reported on the U.S. smartphone market for Q1 2026, stating it has dipped by 3% YoY.<\/li>\n<li>The company says that rising memory and storage costs aided this decline, as well as &#8220;restrained carrier upgrades.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Samsung dropped 5% YoY, but it still led the charge for Android, taking up 24% of the market; however, Apple (down 3%) took the number one spot with 60%.<\/li>\n<li>The only Android maker to go positive was Motorola, which marked an 18% growth in the U.S. smartphone market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-119e27ec-6f24-48ba-b500-5744c80b3b5a\">Reports discussing how smartphones performed in Q1 are surfacing, and they&#8217;re telling the story of a struggling market.<\/p>\n<p>The research company Omdia shared a press release this morning (May 27), highlighting how the U.S. smartphone market performed in Q1 2026. According to its research, the market did not perform as well YoY (year-over-year). Omdia states the market dipped by 3% YoY in Q1, as companies shipped 33.4 million units across the country.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-119e27ec-6f24-48ba-b500-5744c80b3b5a-2\">The cause? Omdia says &#8220;shipments were pressured by a more restrained carrier upgrade environment, rising memory and storage costs, and delayed device launches that compressed sell-through for key premium models.&#8221; Though the decline was &#8220;modest,&#8221; Omdia could not ignore the aforementioned catalysts behind the market&#8217;s decline in Q1.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/c8t5znsqpd1648225513.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Android Central&#8217;s Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">I think what&#8217;s most interesting is the 60\/40 split between Apple and Android in Q1. The U.S. is nearly split on which devices it&#8217;s reaching for: Android or iOS. Samsung still leads the charge for Android, but its still roughly 40% behind Apple (and ~12 million shipped devices behind, too). I&#8217;m also quite surprised by Motorola. It&#8217;s the only popular Android brand that went positive\u2014and by double digits, at that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-34091b5c-21eb-4886-8a53-23227d58f2e2\">The situation breaks down company performance, too, with Apple leading the charge with 60% of the U.S. phone market. However, the company isn&#8217;t unscathed, as Apple posted a 3% dip in Q1. 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