Xiaomi
China's Xiaomi was hot on Samsung's heels, accounting for 17% of global shipments in the second quarter.
Of the top five smartphone makers on Canalys' list, Xiaomi had the highest rate of annual growth, at 83%.
"Xiaomi is growing its overseas business rapidly," Ben Stanton, research manager at Canalys, said. He said that its shipments increased more than four-fold in Latin America, and grew by 150% in Africa and 50% in Western Europe.
"It is now transforming its business model from challenger to incumbent, with initiatives such as channel partner consolidation and more careful management of older stock in the open market," Stanton said.
He added that Xiaomi is still largely skewed toward the mass market with an average selling price around a quarter of Apple's, but that it was planning to grow sales of its high-end devices, such as the Mi 11 Ultra, which starts at 5,999 yuan ($928).
As well as smartphones, Xiaomi announced in March that it was pumping $10 billion into a new smart electric-vehicle unit.