With the Pixel 7 series of smartphones launch being just a couple of hours away, a new report has revealed that Google has sold nearly 30 million smartphones from its Pixel series till date.
The news arrives from Vlad Savov who sourced the information from an IDC report. As per the new data, the Search Engine giant has managed to sell tens of millions of phones so far and its 2022 flagship models, the Pixel 7, will push sales past the 30 million mark now. For those unaware, sales of the Pixel series of smartphones actually started picking up in 2019, following the launch of the Pixel 3a model. With its first mid range handset, the company managed to see a 2x times growth in a year and managed to sell over 7 million units in a single year.
Since Google launched Pixel phones in 2016, it's sold 27.6 million units. That's 1/10 of Samsung's 2021 sales. In other words, Google would need 60 years to sell as many phones as Samsung sells in one.
Data: IDC
— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) October 4, 2022
Now, IDC reports that the exact sales figure is around 27.6 million units of Pixel phones that were sold in the past six years. This basically means that Google sells about 4.6 million phones every year. Although, some years have clearly has the brand see more success than others. But overall, this figure is still quite small compared to market leaders like Samsung Electronics, which shipped around 10 times this figure in 2021 alone.
But despite this, the Pixel series appears to be on a rise again, with the last gen Pixel 6 series breaking sales record for the Google smartphone lineup. Now, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are also highly anticipated, but it remains to be seen how they perform in the market. So stick around for more, as we will be covering the launch event later today (6th October 2022).
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