Huawei: Outperforms Samsung in April, becoming the world's largest smartphone maker

Η Huawei for the month April, was for the first time in the first place, gaining 21,4% of the world market share of smartphone.

Ήat the beginning of 2016, when the Huawei announced its plans to become the largest smartphone maker in the world within the next five years, surpassing in sales Samsung and Apple.

He managed to overcome her Apple, for the first time in 2018, and Huawei set as a new goal to surpass and Samsung by the end of 2020.

These are her ambitions Huawei They were in danger of falling into a vacuum when, exactly a year ago, the United States announced the exclusion of the company from the domestic market, as well as the ban on Huawei from cooperating with Google and other large companies of American interests.

However, new data reveal that Huawei has finally achieved this long-term goal.

Although the Huawei is facing a sharp decline in sales across Europe since the Lock-Down in many countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Counterpoint Research claims that the company for the month of April, was for the first time in first place, gaining 21,4% of the global market share of smartphones.

The Chinese company managed to increase its share mainly thanks to its strong presence in China. While demand for new smartphones collapsed in most international markets, in China the market had already recovered by April.

Η Samsung, on the other hand, suffered en masse due to severe Lock-Downs in both India and Europe. The South Korean company accounted for only 19,1% of the smartphone market in April, representing a 29% drop in demand compared to March.

Η Counterpoint Research points out the significantly lower demand that its new series has Galaxy S20 5G compared to previous Samsung flagships. Although the sales numbers of his turn were not announced Galaxy S20 5G, previous reports showed that sales fell by more than 30% compared to the company's previous flagship.

In total the Samsung in April sold a total of 69,37 million smartphones worldwide, a number that represents a huge drop from year to year reaching 41%.
There are still no reports on its performance Huawei for May, but perhaps the company manages to finish the second quarter of 2020 as the largest smartphone maker in the world, and this will mark for the first time the victory of Huawei, which achieves the goal it set a few years ago.

Sales in China continued to recover throughout the quarter, but demand in Europe, North America and India remained extremely low. These three areas are extremely important to her Samsung, which means the company could fall even lower in sales.

Η Samsung is likely to return to the top spot once international markets normalize later this year, but at least for now Huawei can boast that it has achieved its long-term goal, even if its success later turns out to be temporary.

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