Huawei and Apple fare best in declining global smartphone market
Gartner’s belated shipment numbers tally with prompter ones to show a global smartphone market that declined by 20% in Q2 2020.
Gartner’s belated shipment numbers tally with prompter ones to show a global smartphone market that declined by 20% in Q2 2020.
Tech giant Microsoft has decided to have another go at the smartphone market, for old time’s sake, with a Surface branded foldy phone.
It seems the market for Nokia-inspired phones is a durable one, with three major telecoms players deciding to double-down on their investments.
At a recent conference the head of Huawei’s consumer unit revealed that supplies of its smartphone processors have dried up.
Google has announced it will launch the Pixel 4a later this month, with the 5G-compatible devices prepped for the autumn.
Samsung Electronics’ solid Q2 has benefited from strong demand for semiconductors by datacentres and PC markets to satisfied online activities that have surged during COVID-19 crisis.
Despite a 17% year-on-year decline in China’s smartphone shipments, Huawei and Apple have risen above the trend, while 5G-enabled devices account for 33% of all sales.
Huawei’s network infrastructure business is effectively dead in the UK, but a £10 million investment in the UK high street is a reminder its consumer unit is still alive.
With the launch of a cheap 5G smartphone from RealMe in India, the prospects of a 5G network in the short- to mid- term is becoming much more realistic.
Rumours have emerged to suggest Huawei has asked suppliers to halt production of components as it assesses the damage inflicted by political tension.
The latest numbers from analyst firm Counterpoint reveal the European smartphone market shrank by 7% in Q1 2020, but there was considerable variation between vendors and countries.
Smartphone shipments have been slashed across the industry during the first three months of 2020, though Xiaomi managed to post some year-on-year growth.
Just over a month after they started working on it, Apple and Google have made their COVID-fighting framework available to public health authorities.
Xiaomi has reported revenue and profit rises through to March 31, but let’s not forget this does not include the period of extensive lockdowns in European markets.
With its main smartphone manufacturing sites situated in Wuhan, Lenovo has been hit hard by COVID-19, spoiling what would have otherwise been a very productive year.
Chinese smartphone vendor has partnered with pan-European telco Vodafone to offer its full-range of 4G and 5G devices.
The rest of the world might be working its way through a smartphone slump, but 5G is providing the catalyst for growth in the Chinese markets.
The UK has officially launched its NHS contact tracing app, but there remain many questions about how effective it can be.
It was of course never going to admit it has been spying on customers, so Xiaomi has hit back at a Forbes article which suggests the smartphone manufacturer is eavesdropping.
Hardware sales for Apple have dipped over the last three months, but with services gaining weight and the firm still in the building stages for 5G, few seem to be worried.
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