"Smartphone shipments" refers to the number of smartphones being sent or delivered from the manufacturers to retailers or customers. It indicates the quantity of smartphones being produced and distributed in a given period.
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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.
We are now ranked number three globally in terms
of smartphone shipments, and our brand recognition is growing steadily in key regions.
As smartphones get cheaper we'll ultimately see the demise of
non smartphone shipments and eventually everyone will have a smartphone.
Now that the iPhone X is available in the market, Apple may see an increase in the number of
smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter, especially during the holiday season, provided they have enough inventory of the tenth anniversary iPhone.
In the second calendar quarter, Chinese companies Oppo and Vivo saw year - over-year worldwide
smartphone shipments increase 136.6 percent and 80.2 percent, respectively, according to IDC.
Strategy Analytics also showed a 9 % YoY reduction in
smartphone shipments in China and the US, against IDC's 6.3 % YoY figures.
After the release of their native figures, International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced that worldwide
smartphone shipments reached to whopping 1.3 billion in 2014.
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.
Total smartphone shipments in China will rise 44 percent to 300 million units this year, driven by handsets costing about 700 yuan ($ 113), researcher IDC forecast in December.
In Q4 2016, the number of
smartphone shipments stood at 25.8 million units, which was a 20.3 per cent decline over the previous quarter.
Still, if you need to be cheered up, at least
BlackBerry smartphone shipments are keeping up with estimates, at 14.1 million for the three - month period ending on November 26th, though RIM also forecasts that its numbers in the fourth quarter will be lower than in the one just finished.
«When BlackBerry structured the deal, management had expected
higher smartphone shipment volumes but ended up overpaying when units collapsed,» industry analyst Tim Long told the Tribune.
Now second only to Samsung in
Android smartphone shipments, Huawei has designs on assaulting the US market in 2016, and the flagship at the vanguard of that raid might well be the P9.
IDC found the Chinese phone maker accounted for 48 - percent of high -
end smartphone shipments in the South Asian country over the observed period, having grown its business by 1,116 - percent year - on - year.
In calendar year 2015, Huawei became the first Chinese handset vendor to top 100 million
smartphone shipments annually, but can it truly rival Samsung and Apple?
Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 0.5 % in 2017, the first year - over-year decline the market has experienced since the introduction of what we now know as smartphones.
According to Counterpoint Research, the
online smartphone shipments in India grew 23 % annually, which is even faster than the growth of the overall smartphone market in 2017.
«While our number three ranking for
smartphone shipments last quarter shows the increasing demand for our flagship handsets including the HUAWEI Ascend P6, we still have a long way to go to build the HUAWEI brand among consumers globally,» said Colin Giles, Executive Vice President, HUAWEI Consumer Business Group.
HUAWEI also saw rapid growth in
smartphone shipment across Europe, reporting 18 percent year - over-year growth with particularly robust performance in Central and Eastern and Nordic Europe.
Research from the IHS Markit's
Smartphone Shipment Database reveals that the iPhone 6s was the most shipped smartphone of 2016, followed by the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPhone 6s Plus.
At this point, the US smartphone market is effectively a duopoly, with Apple and Samsung
dominating smartphone shipments, market share, brand loyalty, and more.
Huawei needed just nine months to cross the 100 million
smartphone shipment barrier this year, cooking up among others some sort of a foldable product.
And the worldwide smartphone market share of Apple and Samsung is expected to decline to around 14 percent and 25 percent, respectively, with both companies»
combined smartphone shipment expected to stagnate at around 460 million units in 2014.
Huawei continues its incredible rise to worldwide fame, reporting 27 million
smartphone shipments between July and September, up 63 percent year on year.
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?
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.
Given that major smartphone makers are already aggressively adopting the all - screen display technology for their flagships, the total global all -
screen smartphone shipments is now expected to climb to 40 percent in the following year, according to the latest industry estimate.
Samsung was the only major smartphone vendor to report a year - over-year decline in
smartphone shipments as Apple, LG and even Microsoft's mobile division all reported healthy gains.
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