"Huawei strengthens its position as the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world"

Huawei seems to be gradually consolidating its position as the world's second-largest smartphone maker. If the Chinese manufacturer has sold more smartphones than Apple in the second quarter of this year, the same goes for the third quarter. This is the conclusion of IDC's market analysts. However, worldwide total smartphone sales declined in the last quarter.

The results announced for the third quarter of 2018 show that Huawei, as the only manufacturer in the top three, saw its sales increase the most. Compared with the third quarter of 2017, market share increased by no less than 4.6% to reach a total of 14.6%. It is more to Apple that its market share during the last quarter has increased only slightly, with 0.8% to 13.2% and therefore a third place. South Korean Samsung remains the market leader, but in the third quarter, it fell 1.8% to 20.3% of total smartphones sold in the world.

Huawei is still far from Samsung, but if the upward trend continues, it can obviously begin to break pots according to analysts. By stabilizing in second place of a consecutive quarter, this means that the secular duopoly of the famous two smartphone manufacturers has been broken. Huawei's demand for the P20 and P20 Pro devices continues to grow, and with the Mate 20 and 20 models, the company recently launched new smartphones.

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Chinese Manufacturers Rising

Huawei has not only been successful, but from other Chinese manufacturers have also seen their market share increase. With a market share of 9.7%, Xiaomi ranks fourth between Oppo and 8.3%

Three Chinese smartphone manufacturers in the top five. The situation was different in the past when brands such as LG from South Korea, Sony from Japan, HTC from Taiwan and Nokia from Finland dominated the market. And who remembers RIM in Canada with the good old BlackBerry?

Sales of smartphones dropped

Unfortunately, market experts also found that the total number of smart phone sales was down compared with the previous year. In total, 355 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the third quarter of this year. This figure is 6% lower than the same quarter of the previous year, with a total of more than 378 million units.