Huawei Technologies Co overtook Apple inc to say the No. 2 spot in smartphones within the first quarter, moving a step closer to its professed ambition of displacing Samsung at the highest of the market.
The networking large, shrugging off a barrage of accusations that it aids Chinese espionage (which it’s repeatedly denied), grew shipments 500th from a year earlier, analysis firm IDC estimates. it was the sole name within the top 4 that managed to expand volumes because the overall market slid for the sixth consecutive quarter.
Huawei’s been steady gaining on Apple and Samsung electronics Co. with an progressively high-end line-up of devices, notably in its home market of China. The iPhone maker in the week projected quarterly sales that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting demand for iPhones has stable when a unsatisfying holiday amount.
Samsung additionally enjoyed a spike compared with the fourth quarter because of the launch of the marquee S10 range in February. IDC reckons Huawei ought to clutch the No. 2 spot over the rest of 2019.
“The overall smartphone market continues to be challenged in the majority areas, however Huawei was able to grow shipments by 500th,” said Ryan Reith, program vice president with IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers. “This new ranking of Samsung, Huawei, and Apple is incredibly probably what we’ll see once 2019 is all aforementioned and done.”