Huawei Aims to Top Global Smartphone Market Share by next Year
Aug. 3, 2018Already the second-largest smartphone company globally aftergoing past Applelast month, China’s Huawei has now declared ambitions of knocking leader Samsung off its perch.
The company, as mentioned already, is currently the second-largest smartphone vendor in the world behind Samsung, having gone past Apple during the second quarter of this year. According to reports, Huawei shipped a total of 54.2 million units during the April-June quarter, giving it a 15.8 percent market-share – up from 11 percent last year. On the other hand, Apple had shipped just 41.3 million smartphones during the same period, giving it a 12.1 percent share of the market.
Huawei had shipped more than 100 million devices last year, eclipsing established players such as LG, Motorola and HTC. The company has also publicly declared its ambitions to hit the 200 million mark this year; something that has only been achieved by Samsung and Apple thus far. However, now that the company has already gone past Apple, one wouldn’t bet against it going past Samsung at some stage, giventhe South Korean company’s troubleswith smartphone sales of late.
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