NEW DELHI: Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units and Indian brand Micromax was among top 10 handset vendors, research firm Gartner has said.

"Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled nearly 478 million units during the third quarter of 2015. Continued growth in emerging markets helped bolster sales of local brands. As a result, Micromax Informatics cemented its place among the top 10 global mobile phone vendors," Gartner said.

The sales were up by 3.7% during the third quarter of 2015 from the same period in 2014, the firm said.

Micromax's sales jumped over two-fold to 12.16 million units in the reported period compared to 5.6 million units in the same period a year ago, the report said.

Samsung maintained its global leadership with sales growing by about 9% year-on-year to over 102 million units and was followed by Apple which registered 20.6% growth in sales at over 46 million devices.

Microsoft Devices occupied third spot globally with sale of 30.29 million devices in the reported quarter despite decline of about 30% in its sales compared to the third quarter of 2014.

Microsoft was followed by Huawei, LG Electronics, Lenovo, Xiaomi, TCL Communications and ZTE in terms of unit sales in July-September 2015 period.

Global sales of smartphones to end users increased by 15.5% to around 353 million units in the third quarter of 2015 compared to same period in 2014 driven by more consumers opting for smartphones in emerging markets.

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