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Research report shows spurt in iPhone sales worldwide.

A new Gartner report shows Apple iPhone sales saw strong yearly growth during the third quarter of this year. Worldwide, the iPhone accounted for 17.1-percent of smart phones at over 7 million units sold. That reflected an increase of 4.2-percent of share, or about an additional 2.3 million sales from last year.

The ranking puts Apple in third place for worldwide smartphones. Nokia came in number one at 39.3-percent and RIM at 20.8-percent. Number four was a distance HTC at 6.5-percent and Samsung at 3.2-percent.

For overall cellphone sales, Apple didn't make the chart. Sony-Ericsson rounded out that chart at 13.4 million units at 4.3-percent. Roughly 75-percent of all world-wide sales are accounted by Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Sony-Ericsson. Apple looks to have made about 2.3-percent of overall worldwide sales.

Apple's building sales are likely the result of not only continued growth in existing markets, but expansion into others. Apple's sales figures are expected to improve further now that the iPhone is selling in China.

Gartner