Huawei, Oppo See Growth in Q1 2016 as Global Smartphone Shipments Fall: Strategy Analytics

As indicated by the Q1 2016 cell phone shipments and piece of the overall industry report by Methodology Examination, Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi saw an ascent in piece of the pie year-on-year in the primary quarter, while the other two cell phone makers in the main five - Apple and Samsung - saw a drop.

Technique Investigation says that while Samsung held its chief position in wording cell phone shipments, it saw a drop of 3.7 million units delivered year-on-year - with 79 million cell phones transported. It's piece of the overall industry dropped 0.4 percent year-on-year to 24.6 percent. The South Korean tech goliath is said to have kept its top spot position chiefly as a result of its lead Cosmic system S7 models and J-arrangement models. Concerning its opponent Apple, the firm held its number two position with 51.2 million units, yet saw a year-on-year drop of 10 million units, and a drop in cell phone piece of the pie from 17.7 percent to 15.3 percent.

Discussing the Chinese cell phone brands, Huawei kept up its third position with 8.5 percent piece of the overall industry, which is 3.5 percent more from the same quarter a year ago. The organization's cell phone shipments in the primary quarter grew 64 percent year-on-year, to dispatch a great 28.3 million cell phones around the world. "Huawei is shutting the hole on Apple, yet Huawei itself is presently being pursued hard by aspiring adversaries like Oppo and Vivo," said Woody Gracious, Chief at Procedure Investigation.

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Oppo additionally saw a year-on-year development from 2.4 percent piece of the pie in Q1 2015 to 4.6 percent in Q1 2016 because of its expanded nearness and marking in Asian area. It transported 15.5 million cell phones, an expansion from 8.3 million from the same quarter a year ago. Xiaomi in any case, saw a slight fall in shipments on account of an ascent in Oppo's piece of the overall industry. It sent an aggregate of 14.6 million cell phones down from 14.9 million in 2015 Q1, in any case, expanded its piece of the overall industry by 0.1 percent to 4.4 percent.

Linda Sui, Executive at Technique Investigation included that general worldwide cell phone shipments fell by 3 percent every year from 345 million units in Q1 2015 to 334.6 million units in Q1 2016. "It is the first run through following the time when the present day cell phone market started in 1996 that worldwide shipments have contracted on an annualized premise." The drop is said to happen because of the 'expanding entrance development' in driving cell phone markets, for example, China.