For the past couple of years, Samsung has continued to dominate the smartphone industry with just Huawei posing any real threat to that dominance in recent times. However, the Korean tech giant remains unassailable at the top of the charts, a recent research report of the global smartphone industry for Q2 2019 by Strategy Analytics and Counterpoint show.
Both reports confirm that the smartphone shipment fell year-over-year. The decline didn’t affect Samsung and Huawei as they saw a modest increase in shipments and market share during the period.
Strategy Analytics data shows that the global shipments fell 2.6% while Samsung recorded 1.9% increase, Huawei gained 1.7% and Apple lost 0.7% year-over-year. Talking of figures, Samsung sold 76.3 million smartphone units in Q2 2019 while 58.7 million devices were shipped by Huawei. Apple managed to ship 38 million iPhones.
Samsung remains the top smartphone manufacturer, Huawei and Apple follow
Xiaomi and Oppo follow the top three OEMs with 9.4% and 8.7% market shares. Both companies also saw a slight increase in their market share. 
Counterpoint’s research gives roughly the same data with a bit more detail for the rest of the brands in the top 10. Samsung’s market share is around the 20% mark, Huawei nearly 16% and Apple with a little over 10% share. All three OEMs have a slightly lower market share according to Counterpoint’s research. And on the contrary to Strategy Analytics’ report, global shipments are down just 1.2% as opposed to 2.6%.
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Counterpoint’s data also shows that HMD Global Nokia’s shipment grew by 20% in Q2 2019 YoY. The company clinches the 9th place in the global rankings which is a monumental achievement for a relatively new company. Lenovo and Vivo also record a modest increase in sales while LG struggles to keep it afloat. Realme’s growth is 848%, which is normal given that the company’s first smartphone was released in Q2 2019 last year.
