Huawei Beats Apple in Q2 Smartphone Shipments, Moving Up to No. 2, Behind Samsung, IDC Says
Smartphone vendors shipped 342 million handsets globally in Q2, 1.8 percent fewer than the year-earlier quarter, said IDC Tuesday. It was the third straight quarter of such declines, the fourth ever, and the researcher believes it's "the result of churn…
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in some highly penetrated markets, although many high growth markets still exist and should return smartphone shipments to overall growth.” Huawei's 41 percent increase to 54.2 million enabled it to leapfrog Apple into No. 2, behind Samsung, said IDC. It was the first quarter since 2010's Q2 in which Apple wasn't No. 1 or No. 2. IHS Markit had a nearly identical take.