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The global smartphone market collapsed by 20% in the second quarter. The leaders are still Samsung, Huawei and Apple

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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%.


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