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Xiaomi sells 200 million units of Redmi Note series smartphones globally

Jeet — Thu, 20 May 2021 06:04:43 +0000

Xiaomi has seen significant growth in the past years and the Chinese company has now become the third-largest smartphone vendor globally in terms of shipping volume, sitting just behind Samsung and Apple.

The company has several popular lineups and one of them is the Redmi Note series. As per the latest numbers revealed by Xiaomi, so far, the company has shipped more than 200 million units of Redmi Note series smartphones globally. It has only shared an overall number and not individual figures for each generation in the lineup.

A few months ago, in November 2020, the company had announced that the Redmi Note series managed to sell 140 million units. This means that in about half a year, it has managed to sell an additional 60 million devices.

The company believes that the reason behind such popularity of the Redmi Note series smartphones is the brand’s strategy of offering high-end products with better technology, richer experience, and higher quality to everyone at an affordable pricing of around 1,000 yuan, which is approximately $155.

Xiaomi first introduced the Redmi Note series in 2014. A couple of years ago, in 2019, along with announcing the Redmi Note 7 series, it revealed that Redmi has become an independent brand. It is one of the most successful product lines of the Redmi brand.

This announcement from the company just days before Xiaomi is expected to launch the new Redmi Note 10 series smartphones in the Chinese market, likely on 26th May. The phone, powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC, is expected to be made available in China in four color options. The Pro version of the same is expected to come packed with the MediaTek Dimensity 900 chipset.

Lu Weibing, Partner at Xiaomi Group, President of Xiaomi China and International Department as well as General Manager of Redmi brand, is set to host a talk on 26th May regarding the global shortage of chips and shed light on how it affects the company.

Apple dominates tablet market with 53.2 million shipments in 2020

Jeet — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:42:21 +0000

Last year witnessed growth in the computer market as well as tablets as people were stuck at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As per the latest report coming from IDC, the tablet market witnessed a growth of 13.6 percent in terms of sales in the year 2020.

In total, 164.1 million tablets were shipped, which is more than 144.5 million devices shipped a year prior to that. Unsurprisingly, Apple was the market leader throughout the year in this segment.

The report claims that Apple managed to ship 19 million iPads in the four quarter of 2020 alone, showcasing its dominance in the market. In total, the Cupertino-based giant managed to ship 53.2 million units last year, covering 32.5 percent market.

Samsung came in at the second position with shipments of 10.1 million Galaxy Tabs in Q4 2020, which is a growth of 45 percent compared to the same period previous year. The company got a market share of 19.1 percent.

Despite struggling to keep its consumer electronics business afloat, Chinese giant Huawei managed to be in the top 5 tablet brands for the year 2020, thanks to the company’s shipment of 16 million units in the last year, getting 9.8 percent market share.

Lenovo, the China-based company, stood fourth with 5.6 million shipments in Q4 2020, up 2.5 million shipments in Q4 2019. In total, the company shipped 14.1 million units last year and managed to get 8.6 percent market share.

Worldwide app spending reaches almost $40 billion in the first half of 2019

Jeet — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:22:25 +0000

According to a report published by Sensor Tower, the total amount spent on smartphone applications in the first of this year, i.e. H1 2019 comes down to almost $40 billion. The spending figure combines the spending on both the platforms, Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Compared to the spending figures for the last year, it represents a 15 percent increase for the same time period. This hints that we could witness a new record in terms of app spendings once the report of H2 2019 also gets published.

Further, the report reveals that the users on iOS spent almost $25.5 billion on the App Store in the first half of 2019 while the Android users spent around $14.2 billion across Google Play Store. The spending on the Google Play Store shows a growth of around 20 percent compared to the last year.

The gaming category applications account for the highest-earning apps, bringing in around $29.6 billion. Arena of Valor (aka Honor of Kings) from Chinese giant Tencent Games comes at the top top of list raking in $728 million across iOS and Android. The second position was grabbed by Fate/Grand Order with $628 million in revenue. This was followed by Monster Strike which managed to earn $566 million.

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If the non-gaming categories are considered, then dating app Tinder tops the list with around $497 million revenue, which was followed by Netflix with $399 million for the second spot. Tencent Video, another app from the Chinese giant came in third with revenues of $278 million.

During the period of H1 2019, total app downloads witnessed an increase of 11 percent despite a slowdown in iOS installs. In this period, around 56.7 billion apps were downloaded in which Android installs accounted for around 42 billion and Apple‘s iOS installs accounted for 14.2 billion.

In terms of most downloaded applications across both the platforms continue to be led by WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook, grabbing the first, second, and third spot respectively. In the fourth and fifth position were taken by TikTok and Instagram.

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