Huawei remains a distant third, with a smartphone market share worth $7 billion (roughly Rs. 45,471 crores) in the second quarter, about one-fifth of those of Apple and Samsung, according to Canalys.
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Counterpoint Research reported that Apple’s iPhone 6s “broke records” in China, selling 7 million units in a month to reach a leading 19 percent share of smartphone sales in September. That would mean it outpacing growth forecast for major rivals such as Apple, Xiaomi Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, analysts said. Previously, smaller players often swapped that rank in price wars.
Mid-to-high-end devices accounted for 33 percent of those shipments – up seven percentage points over the previous quarter, said Huawei. Deliveries climbed 81 percent and 98 percent in China and Europe respectively from a year ago. The Shenzhen-based handset maker also doubled its smartphone revenue in the first half of 2015 in China, a key smartphone market alongside the United States.
The Chinese tech company said it was “proud” of the growth in smartphone sales that it had witnessed outside of the People’s Republic.
But while Huawei may be celebrating its rocketing growth in the smartphone game, the USA market remains a huge challenge to the company, which is best known as a networks kit vendor.
As such, it is remarkable to find out that the top nine devices that the most active users are utilizing to access Tencent’s services are made by Xiaomi, showing the massive adoption of the company’s devices in its home country.
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“Huawei’s extraordinary performance is attributed to its distinct product strategy, through which Huawei-branded models are to target the high-end sector and Honor-branded models the mass sector with an aim to increase market presence”, says Edward Lin, senior industry analyst with MIC. “It still has a few room to grow”.
