Huawei remains Chinese smartphone market leader in 2020: IDC

The latest research coming from IDC shows that Huawei has sold most smartphones in 2020 in the Chinese smartphone market for the first place.

According to IDC, Huawei sold 123.9 million units along with a 38.3% market share with an 11.2% decline compared to the 140.6 million smartphones and 38.4% share in 2019. Second, comes Vivo with 57.5 million units, Oppo sold 56 million and Apple comes fifth with 36.1 million units.

Meanwhile, the fourth-quarter results of the global smartphone market have shown a continuous decline in sales. However, performance results also show that Huawei has been surely affected by the U.S. sanctions, which reflects on its sales graph.

On the other hand, the latest research from IDC shows that the Chinese tech giant continues to lead the smartphone market in the home ground but with a noticeable decrease.

According to the data, Huawei has maintained its top spot in the fourth quarter of 2020 by shipping 21.7 million units of smartphones and a 25.1% market share. There’s also a big decrease in the growth rate, which declined at 34.5%.

Other smartphone makers such as Apple, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi are the top contenders to take the reducing number of Huawei’s smartphone consumer base.

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