The Vietnamese company declined to be named as it is not allowed to reveal the nonpublic information to the media.
The more than three million unit sales were collectively worth VND13.6 trillion (US$624.71 million), meaning the price of a smartphone averaged VND4.5 million (US$207), according to data from the same source.
The strongest sales were recorded during the first two months, when Vietnam celebrated Tet, or the Lunar New Year. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s two biggest cities, were the largest markets for smartphones.
Vietnamese consumers have increasingly preferred smartphones to feature phones, with a wide range of brands to choose from, including Samsung, Oppo, Mobiistar, Q-Mobile, Asus, Sony, Apple and Microsoft. Oppo reported the strongest growth thanks to numerous promotional campaigns.
More smartphone users in Vietnam have switched to devices with screens bigger than four inches than the same period last year.
Handsets whose price averaged VND4.5 million were the bestsellers in the Jan-Mar period. Microsoft, Samsung, and Oppo have many products in this price segment.
Global smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year reached 310 million units, up seven percent from Q4-2014, GfK said in a press release on May 15. The total value was US$96.2 billion, an 8% increase from a quarter earlier
