Stefan Mileschin

Went from 103M in three years

Huawei managed to sell 200 million smartphones in 2018 - a massive increase from 103 million in 2015 or just three million in 2010. As of the first half of this year, Huawei is the world’s second biggest smartphone manufacturer overtaking Apple and leaving Samsung in the prime position.

Huawei managed to do this without the US market as the company withdrew from this market due to a congressional decision that the Chinese company alleged sneak peaking. Getting to 200 million is definitely something that European expansion helped, and the quality of the phone dramatically increased in recent years.

P20 Pro is the phone with one of the best cameras on the market and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is one of the best phones available for end of the year. The Huawei P20 Pro sold 16 million while the Mate 20 Pro sold five million devices in just two months since launch. This is what Huawei got right, a partnership with Leica and incredible camera performance is one of the key factor for reaching 20 million with a phone with a clearly weaker SoC.

A year before, the company sold 153 million phones - again an impressive performance. In Q3 2018 Huawei managed to sell 52 million phones and capture 14.6 percent of the market, lagging behind Samsung's 72.2 million and 20.3 percent market share but beating Apple’s 46.9 million and 13.2 percent of the Q3 2018 market share.

Huawei managed to grow by 32.9 percent compared to Q3 2017 while Samsung dropped 13.4 percent and Apple gained a very frugal 0.5 percent. Xiaomi, as the clear number four, grew 21.2 percent Q3 2017 over 2018 and sold 34.3 million phones capturing 9.7 percent. Oppo is not far behind with 29.9 million phones sold and 8.4 percent of market share. The top five companies took 66.2 percent of the Q3 2018 according to IDC - a massive number - a massive number.

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