«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.
Not exact matches
Chinese telecom giant Huawei said its
smartphone shipments reached 153 million
last year, grabbing a 10 per cent global market share to become the third - largest international
smartphone player.
The Indian
smartphone market finally recorded a sequential growth of 17.1 percent in
shipments for Q2 2016 after declining in the
last two quarters.
Counterpoint Research estimates that
shipments of feature phones declined by 16 percent in the
last quarter, while
smartphone numbers jumped 68 percent during the same period.
Huawei retained its position as the second - largest
smartphone vendor in China
last year with 76.6 million
shipments, and with OPPO and Vivo cornering the market with their extensive retail presence, Huawei will be looking to standout features — such as a voice - based AI assistant — to attract new customers.
The China - based
smartphone company has claimed to double its
shipments in India in 2017, they have increased
shipments compared to
last year.
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.
Gartner's research from
last month did show that Vivo is the fifth largest manufacturer of
smartphones in terms of global
shipments.
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.
Last week, IDC revealed that Huawei's full - year
smartphone shipments for 2017 reached 153.1 million, ranking third globally behind Samsung, at 317.3 million, and Apple, at 215.8 million.
Counterpoint Research has pointed out that Nokia
smartphones have exceeded 1 percent of Global
Smartphone shipments in the
last Quarter of 2017.
The company appears to feel very confident with its next - generation
smartphones and is supposedly planning to almost double first
shipments of the devices compared to
last year's Galaxy S7 and S7 edge release.
As sales and
shipments of Samsung's
smartphones have seen a large drop recently, despite their overall popularity over the
last few years, it makes sense for the Korean company to change things up and really offer something new for the Galaxy S6.
Big changes are in the wings this year as IDC reports big movements in
smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of
last year.
Samsung's
shipments of
smartphones in China dropped by 60 % compared to
last year, to a level of 3.5 million units in the first quarter.