Apple iPhone 8 Plus becomes first Plus model to outsell smaller iPhone.

Apple IPhone 8 Plus has outsold the smaller iPhone 8 in the third quarter of 2017, numbers from Canalys reveal.

The analyst report from Canalys says that the iPhone 7 was the best selling smartphone globally in the third quarter of 2017 with shipments reaching 13 million units, while iPhone 6s came in a distant second with shipments reaching 7.9 million units. Samsung's Galaxy J2 Prime was the third best-selling smartphone with shipments of 7.8 million units, while Oppo took fourth and fifth place with its A57 and R11 smartphones.

Apple continues to maintain its second place in the top five vendors list with 46.7 million iPhones shipped in the third quarter. While Apple doesn't share shipment details of individual models, Canalys estimates the company to have shipped 11.8 million units of iphone 8 and iphone 8 plus combined since it went on sale starting September 22. It shipped 6.3 million units of iPhone 8 Plus, higher than 5.4 million units of iPhone 8 shipped in the third quarter. "Shipments of older devices, such as the iPhone 6s and SE, saw an uptick in Q3," said Canalys Analyst Ben Stanton.