The global smartphone market collapsed by 20% in the second quarter. The leaders are still Samsung, Huawei and Apple
The pandemic hit the global smartphone market hard in the second quarter of this year, as evidenced by Gartner’s statistics released today: shipments fell 20.4% year on year.
From April to June inclusive, 294.7 million smart cellular devices were sold globally. For comparison: a year earlier, shipments were equal to approximately 370.3 million units.
According to the results of the last quarter, Samsung became the leader with a share of 18.6%. But smartphone sales of the South Korean giant fell by 27.1% compared to the second quarter of 2019.
Chinese Huawei is slightly behind with a result of 18.4%: sales in annual terms decreased by 6.8%. Apple closes the top three with 13.0% of the world market: shipments of iPhone devices for the year decreased by 0.4%.
Next come the Chinese Xiaomi and OPPO, which control 8.9% and 8.0% of the market, respectively. Shipments of devices from these companies decreased by 21.5% and 15.9%.
Thus, the five named developers control two-thirds of the global smartphone market. The total share of all other companies was 33.2%.
