The last quarter showed a 6.3 % year - on - year decline in total
smartphone shipment volume in both China and the United States, as many consumers deferred their upgrade plans.
The biggest gainer over the past year has been Xiaomi, whose
smartphone shipment volumes have shot up by an incredible 267.3 % in that time.
Not exact matches
Beijing - based Xiaomi is the world's fourth biggest
smartphone maker by
shipment volume, according to International Data Corp..
The big question now is whether Huawei will overtake Samsung to become second to head honcho Apple in overall
smartphone shipments in the world and the biggest Android manufacturer by
volume?