Smartphone vendors shipped 373.1 million handsets in the third quarter of this year, up by 2.7 percent year-on-year.

Among the top five vendors, Apple posed the slowest growth of 2.6 percent year-on-year while Xiaomi recorded the fastest growth of 102.6 percent. Let us take a look at the top five smartphone companies with the largest shipments.

No 5 Xiaomi

Shipment: 27.6 million units

A staff member introduces a Xiaomi product to a customer at a store in Madrid, capital of Spain, on Nov 11, 2017.[Photo/Xinhua]