Market research firm Gartner has released a report of the global smartphone market for the second quarter of the year. The data shows that smartphone sales fell by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020 with an estimated gross shipment of 295 million units.
Samsung recorded the highest shipment with a gross shipment of 54.759 million units giving it a market share of 18.6%. However, despite still ranked as the number one phone merchant, the Korean giant’s shipment fell short of last year’s figure by 27.1%.
Huawei shipped an estimated 54.12 million units with a market share of 18.4%, a year-on-year decline of 6.8%, and a month-on-month sales growth of 27.4%. Huawei’s market share almost equalled that of Samsung, with just The market share basically equalled Samsung with just 630,000 units separating it from the being the market leader. If we put into perspective Huawei’s sanctions by the US government, then it can be seen that the performance is pretty impressive. Perhaps if the sanctions don’t exist, Huawei may have become the market leader by now.
US phone maker Apple is ranked third with a gross shipment of 38.386 million units in Q2, which was basically the same as last year. The market share was 13.0%, down 0.4% year-on-year.
The fourth spot is occupied by Xiaomi with a shipping estimate of 26.0952 million units and a market share of 8.9%. Xiaomi’s market share also declined by 21.5% year-on-year.
The top-5 ranking is completed by OPPO who is estimated to have shipped 23.61 million units, having a market share of 8.0% with a year-on-year decline of 15.9%.
On the whole, the smartphone market continued to experience declining shipments occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic. Gartner says the worldwide decline in smartphone sales was also a result of overall declines in the two largest smartphone markets. China registered a 7% decline in sales in this quarter, while smartphone sales dropped by 46% in India during the quarter. The two countries are the largest and second-largest smartphone markets worldwide, respectively.
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