According to Gartner's latest report on global smartphone sales of Q1 2016, the sales of the major North American companies have taken quite a hit. Apple and Samsung held on to the top two spots with 14.8% and 23.2% of the market respectively. While Huawei and Oppo were the big winners this past year, Lenovo fell off the map entirely. The ambitious projects of Microsoft and BlackBerry, though, have simply not worked, with them holding 0.7% and 0.2% of the market, and it looks extremely unlikely for them to compete with the Android market and neither company seem particularly keen to try developing their own brands with the collapsing market shares. Read more at: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/229092-latest-smartphone-sales-data-is-grim-news-for-windows-phone