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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According to the new report published by market analysis firm Canalys, South Korean giant Samsung has dominated the European smartphone market in the second quarter of this year. The company has captured a whopping 40.6 percent of the market share.

It also reported that Samsung has shipped 18.3 million smartphones in Europe in Q2 2019, higher compared to the shipment of 15.3 million units in Q2 2018. The growth in shipments, around 20 percent, is being attributed to the newly revamped Galaxy A-series of smartphones.

Despite being in troubled water because of the US ban, China-based Huawei managed to retain its second position in the European smartphone market. It shipped 8.5 million units in Europe, which is down from 10.1 million units shipped in Q2 2018. In Q2 of this year, the company held 18.8 percent market share in Europe.

The third position in the European market was grabbed by Apple with 14.1 percent market share and shipments of 6.4 million units. Among those shipments, 1.8 million units were of Apple iPhone XR.

Xiaomi and HMD Global, the company behind the Nokia brand, have grabbed the fourth and fifth spot with 9.6 percent and 2.7 percent market share respectively. While Xiaomi shipped 4.3 million units in Q2 2019 registering 48 percent growth, HMD Global shipped 1.2 million units in the same period.

As for the best-selling smartphones in the Europen market for the period of April 2019 to June 2019, Samsung Galaxy A50 topped the list with shipments of 3.2 million units. It was followed by Samsung Galaxy A40, which managed to ship 2.2 million units. According to Canalys’ data, the Galaxy A10, A20e, A40 and A50 together shipped more than any other phone vendor’s entire portfolio in Europe in Q2 2019.

The third best-selling smartphone was Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 with 2 million units shipped while Galaxy A20e and Apple iPhone XR got the fourth and fifth place with the shipments of 1.9 million and 1.8 million units respectively.

Overall, the European smartphone market remained flat, registering the same 45 million smartphone shipments in Q2 2019, the same number of shipments as in Q2 2018.

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Huawei has been under attack from the US since May 2019 but that seems to have somehow strengthened its position in the Chinese market. IDC has just released the latest data for the Chinese smartphone market in Q2 2019 and we can see some really big gains for Huawei during this period.

Among the top 5 smartphone makers in China in Q2 2019, Huawei was the only company to register an increase in its shipments. The telecommunications giant shipped over 36.3 million smartphones in this period in China, which was a solid 27% increase from last year’s 28.5 million units. This helped its market share grow from 27.4% last year to 37% in the most recent quarter. IDC notes that the company’s increased investment and focus on the Chinese market boosted its growth in the last quarter. Also, the P30 series and the Honor 20 series were quite popular in China driving its market share to new heights.

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As for the other four manufacturers in the list, Xiaomi saw the biggest drop in terms of shipments. The company ranked fourth, trailing behind Vivo and OPPO in terms of market share and shipments. Xiaomi’s shipments fell from 14.5 million units in Q2 2018 to just 11.7 million units in Q2 2019, registering a 19.3% drop. IDC adds that the company’s offline management issues and the early release cycle of the Mi 9 this year could have been the factors that contributed to its decline in shipments.

If you notice, the second and third positions in the IDC’s list have been reversed this year. vivo has overtaken OPPO in terms of shipments, shipping nearly 100K units more than OPPO last quarter. Interestingly, a recent report by Canalyst for the same period puts OPPO on top of vivo for Q2 2019, that too by a clear margin of a few hundred thousand units.

At the fifth place is Apple, shipping 6.6 million units and maintaining a steady 6.7% market share during this period.

The total smartphone shipments in China fell slightly to 97.9 million in Q2 2019. The total shipments for H1 2019 were down by 5.4% at around 180 million units.

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MediaTek has released its financial report for the second quarter of this year, i.e. Q2 2019, reporting respectable growth quarter-on-quarter basis and a minor growth when compared year-on-year basis.

The company reported that it grew 16.8 percent in Q2 2019 compared to the previous quarter and 1.8 percent when compared year-on-year. It’s consolidated growth margin also grew by 3.7 percent YoY.

It also reported that the company’s net income grew 90.4 percent compared to the last quarter but on the year-on-year basis, it fell by 12.6 percent. Operating income growth reported by the company stands at 93.9 percent on QoQ basis and 50.1 percent when compared year-on-year.

Taiwan-based MediaTek reported consolidated revenue of T$61,567 million and its net profit after tax reached NT$6.503 billion. EPS diluted earnings per share also reached T$4.11, up from T$2.17 in the previous quarter.

The company says that quarter-over-quarter increase was mainly due to increased seasonal demand for consumer electronics. The year-over-year increase was mainly attributed to higher sales from consumer electronics, such as IoT, ASIC, and PMIC.

The performance of MediaTek has been steady since 2016 because of the intense competition in the smartphone market and its revenue has been barely growing for over three years but the company’s earnings and margins have been falling.

However, the company has changed its strategy and is now focusing on the mid-range segment chipsets instead of pursuing the lucrative high-end market. MediaTek is now optimizing its product portfolio to reduce costs. This is the reason that its processors are still at 12nm while its competitors have moved to the 7nm process node.

The company recently launched its latest mobile chipset — MediaTek Helio G90 and G90T, aiming at gaming-focused devices. The Helio G90 series is built on the 12nm FinFET node and are octa-core processors with a combination of Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 cores, having a clock speed of up to 2.05GHz and a large L3 cache. There is also an Arm Mali-G76 3EEMC4 GPU clocked at up to 800MHz with support for a maximum display resolution of 2520 x 1080. It comes with support for up to 10GB of LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.1 storage.

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