Apple, the world's most valuable company, sold 8.34 million iPhones in the United States in its most recent quarter, fewer than the previous two periods, according to a court filing in its trial against Samsung Electronics.
US sales accounted for 32 per cent of the 26 million smartphones it sold worldwide in the quarter ended on June 30, according to an exhibit in a court filing on Friday in federal court in San Jose, California.
Apple, which is suing Samsung for patent infringement, hadn't previously given a geographic breakdown of the sales of its biggest product by country.
The fiscal third-quarter total for the US compares to 10.7 million iPhones sold in the preceding three months and the record 15 million sold in the last three months of 2011, the filing showed. The sequential decline is in line with a slowdown seen before in iPhone sales ahead of the release of a new model.