Despite The US Ban, Huawei Is Still The Second Biggest Smartphone Vendor

According to the leading research and advisory company Gartner, Huawei managed to occupy the second position in the list of top smartphone vendors in the world in the first three months of 2019. It seems that the US ban hasn’t affected the Chinese tech giant too much as of this moment.

Also, Gartner noted although Huawei was filling the gap with the South Korean-based smartphone manufacturer Samsung, its growth might be limited in the upcoming time.

On May 15, the US government under the leadership of President Donald Trump added Huawei to its blacklist and didn’t allow the company to buy US goods. A few days ago, the US decided to ease its restrictions on the tech company from China. And Huawei can continue business in the US market by August 19.

In the Quarter I 2019, Samsung still held the first place in the smartphone sales, with its market share of 19.2%. In addition, Huawei showed the highest YOY growth among the top five smartphone makers including Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Vivo, and Oppo.

In the first three months of this year, the Chinese company sold 58.4 million smartphones, and its growth in all regions indicated the optimistic results. However, its shipments of handsets to end users declined by 2.7% with only 373 sold devices.

Two of Huawei’s biggest markets include Greater China and Europe, in which the sales of Huawei smartphones increased by 33% and 69%, respectively. The Chinese company now occupies the market share of 29.5% in the overall smartphone market of Greater China.

However, the US restrictions on Huawei may make a large part of consumers confused. Last week, the product comparison website PriceSpy with about 14 million monthly visitors stated that smartphones manufactured by the tech company got fewer clicks on the Internet than before.

The Gartner senior research director Anshul Gupta said,

Following the US ban, a series of tech companies have ceased business with the Chinese company including ARM, Google, Intel Corp, Qualcomm Inc, Analog Devices, Broadcom Inc, Panasonic Corp, EE of BT Group, and Xilinx Inc.