The latest industry research report from Gartner brings a report about Global smartphone shipments during the first quarter of the year. As we are all well-aware, COVID-19 began disrupting the world starting from around December, which resulted in a global halt of a lot of manufacturing and sales in China before the virus spread worldwide. Consumers were spending less on non-essential items which caused global smartphone shipments to decline altogether.

Global smartphone sales dropped by 20.2% YoY in Q1 of 2020. The top 5 smartphone brands were Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi, and Oppo. Apple saw a smaller decline in sales while Oppo, Samsung, and Huawei saw the most significant decline. Xiaomi was the only brand to grow compared to last year, albeit by 1.4% YoY.

Samsung transported about 55 million units in comparison to much more than 71 million in the identical quarter previous 12 months, In the meantime, Huawei shipped around 42 million (as opposed to more than 58 million), and Apple sold 40 million as opposed to far more than 44 million last yr. Even with Huawei owning the worst performance of this Quarter, it managed to maintain the quantity 2 spot for Q1.

Apple’s skill to serve clients via its online shops and its generation returning to close to typical stages at the stop of March helped recover some of the early good momentum,” discussed Zimmermann.

Apple had a strong start to the year thanks to its new product line up that saw strong momentum globally. If COVID-19 did not happen, the vendor would have likely seen its iPhone sales reach record level in the quarter. Supply chain disruptions and declining consumer spending put a halt to this positive trend in February.” – Annette Zimmermann, Research Vice President at Gartner

Huawei will battle as it tries to get back momentum pursuing COVID-19. On major of delaying generation and gross sales, It continues to deal with the US extension of its ban from Huawei’s carrying out company with American companies, barring it from its Google Engage in License and forcing it to ship all its telephones with HMS (Huawei Cell Services) as a substitute.

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