According to foreign media, statistics released by the US research firm IDC on February 6 show that the top five smart phone market share in 2017 are Samsung, Apple, Huawei, OPPO and Xiaomi.
According to a report by Russian satellite news agency Moscow on February 7, IDC data shows that Samsung leads the global smartphone market with 21.6% market share in 2017. Last year, Samsung mobile phone sales reached 317.3 million units, an increase of 1.9% over 2016 Apple handset shipments grew 0.2% YoY to 215.8 million units, accounting for 14.7% of the global market.
According to the data, Huawei, OPPO and Xiaomi ranked the top five global sales with market share of 10.4%, 7.6% and 6.3% respectively. Last year, Huawei shipped 153.1 million units in the global market, up 9.9% over the same period of the previous year. OPPO and Sales of millet were 1.118 and 92.4 million respectively, up 12% and 74.5% respectively.
In addition, according to IDC statistics, the Chinese smartphone market witnessed its first decline in nearly a decade in 2017, down 4.9% year-on-year and shipped 444.3 million units annually in 2017. The decline in demand in the Chinese handset market led to an overall global slump in 2017. In 2017, Annual global smartphone market shipments of 1.47 billion, down 0.1%.
According to the Nikkei Chinese Network February 8 reported that in 2012 China became the world's largest smartphone market, has also been driven by growth in the world market engine, and this is the first time in the Chinese market shipments fell, the Chinese smart phone industry Is ushering in inflection point.
The background is that the market is in the doldrums, despite the fact that smart phone makers are finding it harder to differentiate themselves with the introduction of new products to make the difference. "Last fall, Apple introduced new products, almost at the same time as Chinese vendors A new product with the same features was released for smart phone hardware, and Chinese consumers are getting bites faster and faster, "said a smart-phone sales outlet in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.