Industry tracker: Huawei overtakes Samsung as top smartphone seller | Malay Mail

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BEIJING, July 30 — China’s Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become the number-one smartphone seller worldwide in the second quarter on the back of strong domestic demand, industry tracker Canalys said today. Canalys said the embattled firm, which is facing US sanctions and falling overseas...

Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 06:50 PM MYT

Canalys said the embattled firm, which is facing US sanctions and falling overseas sales, shipped 55.8 million devices — overtaking Samsung for the first time, which shifted 53.7 million units. More than 70 per cent of Huawei smartphones are now sold in the country, Canalys said, where Samsung has a very small share of the market.Overseas shipments, however, fell nearly a third in the second quarter and Canalys analyst Mo Jia warned that strength in China alone “will not be enough to sustain Huawei at the top once the global economy starts to recover”.

The British government bowed to growing US pressure and pledged earlier this month to remove Huawei from its 5G network by 2027, despite warnings of retaliation from Beijing.

 

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