Since they continue to cost lesser than competing handsets from other countries, their overall shares
in global smartphone shipments have continued to rise with every quarter.
HUAWEI is ranked number three in
global smartphone shipments for Q1 2014 and 2013 by Canalys, IDC, and Strategy Analytics, with the highest year - on - year increase among the leading vendors.
Strategy Analytics has shared their research
on global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2014, and the news is good for Android (but not so much for Apple).
In Q2 2014, HUAWEI Consumer Business Group (BG) retained its number three position in
global smartphone shipments for the fourth consecutive quarter, according to market research and analysis firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
Once the undisputed king among phones in the corporate space, Blackberry ended Q2 2015 with a 0.3 % share in
global smartphone shipments.
Seething with a plethora of pre-festive season sales, the third quarter of this year also marked the first time India has accounted for ten percent of
the global smartphone shipments.
Though brand recognition may be up, Huawei has yet to crack the top five for
global smartphone shipments.
The company is smaller than Apple or Samsung but it according to the IDC it is currently the fifth largest manufacturer in
global smartphone shipments.
All major OEMs see China as an attractive market given how the country accounts for more than a third of
all global smartphone shipments, but local handset vendors have been pushing out foreign competitors in recent years with a broad range of capable and aggressively priced devices.
CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group Richard Yu has been outspoken about the company's aims to supersede Apple in
global smartphone shipments, putting a two - year time - frame on the prospect in comments made last November.
Samsung is the leading company when it comes to
global smartphone shipments and part of this is because it ships devices in just about every category.
In fact, the tech giant, which leads the way when it comes to
global smartphone shipments, was beaten to this update by Xiaomi (126 days) and OnePlus (131 days), with the latter rolling it out on the last day of 2016.
Market watchers claim that Samsung's plan is very timely considering that
global smartphone shipments are expected to weaken this year.
While all is well with Xiaomi, the IDC report states that
global smartphone shipments have gone down for the first time by 0.1 % to 1.47 billion.
Data from Strategy Analytics for example, indicated a 1 % rise in
global smartphone shipments, as opposed t0 IDC's 0.1 % shrinkage.
Apple's iPhones put the company in first place in Q4 2017
global smartphone shipments, beating out Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi.
But the industry's been watching another Chinese company, this one high on the leaderboard for
global smartphone shipments.
You must understand the «others» is where most Android OEMs are when it comes to
global smartphone shipments.