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Huawei Overtakes Samsung as World's Biggest Smartphone Vendor (theverge.com) 46

For the first time ever, Huawei has shipped more smartphones worldwide over a quarter than any other company, according to a new report from analyst firm Canalys. From a report: Huawei has long harbored ambitions to overtake Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone seller, and going by the numbers from Canalys, that's just what happened during the April-June period this year. That doesn't mean Huawei will hold onto the top spot for long, as the results were clearly influenced by the ongoing pandemic. Canalys' figure of 55.8 million Huawei smartphones shipped is actually down 5 percent year-on-year, while Samsung slid 30 percent to 53.7 million. More than 70 percent of Huawei's devices are now sold in China, which hasn't been hit as hard by COVID-19 as many of Samsung's major markets. Samsung, meanwhile, is a tiny player in China. "Our business has demonstrated exceptional resilience in these difficult times," Huawei said in a statement to The Verge. "Amidst a period of unprecedented global economic slowdown and challenges, we've continued to grow and further our leadership position by providing innovative products and experience to consumers."
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Huawei Overtakes Samsung as World's Biggest Smartphone Vendor

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  • like offering their phones as an open platform, so owners can either use the stock android that comes with the phone or download & install alternative firmware like a clean bare-bones android or lineageOS, offer customers something that no other smartphone maker does which would be a first
    • This of course will make Samsung a sales leader again.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Huawei is really eating into Samsung's market. The Mate 20 X is a fantastic phone, ticks all the boxes like accepting memory cards, dual SIMs, headphone jack etc. and it's cheap.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward

        And comes with free monitoring by the PLA

      • Frankly, all the China phones' only problem is their origin. Even small vendors can carve out their small target group and hit it out of the park there, simply because there is a vendor for everyone.

        E.g. By Blackview BV6000 had the best build quality of any phone I ever had. I assumed it was low-end, until I got a Samsung and a Huawei, and while thosenhad better cameras and a larger screen, and maybe (not that I could ever tell) a better CPU, the BV6000 beat them at every other detail. Including being water

    • Yes. Samsung's software is so bloated, you don't want to buy any of their phones.

  • by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:21AM (#60347801) Journal
    Just sayin'.
    • Totally unlike every piece of Intel or Cisco or Motorola or Google or Microsoft or ... equipment.

      At least the Chinese aren't the massas of my particular vassal state ...

      • Some American companies have done bad things, so you can't complain about Chinese companies also doing the same bad things!

        Bad is bad. Why are you being a Chinese Government apologist? Are you a foreign national? Paid China shill? Regardless: fuck you.

    • Chinese Government shills be damned. You know I'm right. Stop misusing your mod points you assholes.
      • by majorme ( 515104 )
        I do not think misused mine when I modded your first post as flame bait. Unless you're out there consistently singling out every smart phone on the market , you're full of shit. Calling people Chinese apologists lol
        • If you 'used a mod point' as you say, IN THIS DISCUSSION, yet you're now posting IN THE SAME DISCUSSION as a logged-in user? Then you have multiple accounts you use to farm mod points to use to attack people with. YOU are the troll, then. Fuck off.
          • by majorme ( 515104 )
            No, I used my mod point prior to commenting. I just thought that you deserve an explanation. Not sure why you see me as devil incarnate or a troll. Maybe consider the fact that not everyone on this site is an American. In my contest, you're are the troll.
  • by timeOday ( 582209 ) on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:32AM (#60347893)
    From Motorola, to Blackberry, to Ericson, to Apple, to Samsung, to Huawei, it's kind of impressive how many companies have taken their turn in the lead. But the overall movement has clearly been towards China, and I don't see where it would migrate from there any time soon.
    • Only an American (no offense) could leave out Nokia.

      The creator of the first smartphones. The first smartphone with a camera and 3G too. And the first one with a freakin file manager, the first one with freely installable apps, the first one with a dedicated copy/paste button, the first one with a real keyboard built in, and the first one with 3D graphics and 3D audio.

    • by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      They cheat by having de-facto slave labor and disincentivizing local consumption over exports. Their large migrant worker population are treated like second-class citizens.

      • No argument there. markets are ruthless.
        • by Tablizer ( 95088 )

          The migrant workers are often left out of markets. Many are not allowed to move closer to work because the gov't doesn't want crowded cities.

  • Oh wait, you don't have any!
    . . .
    You do? In the fridge?

    (Let's see if Trump fans are too triggered to mod this funny. ;)

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