Gartner Research has released its report on the global smartphone sales for the second quarter of the year spanning April to June. The research firm estimates that a total of 368 million units were sold by all the OEMs during the period which is 1.7% lower than the same time last year.
Samsung maintained its lead of the market in terms of market share with a 20.4% share of smartphone sales for the period. This was the first quarterly growth for Samsung after experiencing six consecutive declines in its smartphone sales as it managed to ship 75 million units. Strong demands for the revamped Galaxy A series models were instrumental to the impressive quarterly results.
Samsung is closely followed by Huawei with 15.8% market share while Apple is in the third spot with a 10.5% market share. Demand for Apple’s iPhones continued to plummet with just 38.5 million shipments in Q2 2019 as against 44.7 million the same period last year.
Xiaomi and OPPO complete the top five list with 9% and 7.6% market share respectively. According to Gartner, demand for high-end smartphones has slowed at a greater rate than the demand for mid-range and low-end smartphones. That perhaps, explains why Xiaomi and OPPO are edging closer to Apple.
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On a per-country basis, China had the highest smartphone sales for the period with 101 million units which is a slight 0.5% increase compared to last year. The growth was mainly driven by discounts on high-end 4G phones in light of the recent push for 5G devices in the country. Brazil also recorded a year on year growth of 1.3% in shipment volume, making it the only country other than China where such growth occurred. Gartner had previously predicted that global smartphone shipments will continue to plummet as 2019 comes to an end.
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