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That will bring figures for handset shipments.
These three analysts track handset shipments and therefore may overestimate market share.
The companies run neck-and-neck in the United States, where handset shipments grew 13percentt last year.
"However, NEC's mobile phone handset shipments are following a downward trend, and it is difficult to foresee improved performance in the future".
Handset shipments in its most recent quarter, to the start of February, were just 6m, its lowest figure since spring 2008.
Still, handset shipments for the first nine months of 2001 are a third higher than the same period a year ago, the firm said.
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It now has a handset shipment share of 16.6% compared to Samsung's 14.4%, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research.
Yes, it was the fifth-largest handset player, with shipments up by 102% over last year, but they were down 37% compared to Q1. Canalys puts the power of domestic vendors down to their "deep understanding of local consumer behaviour".
Lei initially told reporters that he didn't expect to make a profit from handset sales, but surging shipments upended that calculation and boosted Xiaomi's valuation to $4 billion in a recent funding round.
Kantar's figures are an interesting counterbalance to figures from analysts like IDC, Gartner and Strategy Analytics, which chart shipments from handset makers (and therefore may be overshooting or undershooting how many consumers are actually buying).
This year will be the first that shipments of handsets with color screens will surpass those of phones with monochrome screens, according to the iSuppli Corporation, a market researcher.
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