According to the latest Gartner report , smartphone shipments in the last year have increased by 1.4% despite a completely saturated market. Apple has remained stable, with the same percentage of the third quarter of 2017, instead should be very well the Chinese brands increasingly move most rapidly, even at the expense Samsung which lost 3.4%.
Nothing alarming for Samsung, which is still the company that sends the largest number of smartphones with 18.9% . Clearly, it’s not just a top-of-the-range product, but also very cheap smartphones for different markets. In the last period Chinese producers like Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo are growing more and more . Huawei rose from 9.5% of the total market share of Q3 2017 to 13.4% of Q3 2018.
Worldwide Top 5 Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 3Q18 (Thousands of Units)
However, more important growth is expected in 2019 with the arrival of smartphones with 5G technology and folding smartphones . There will be two innovations that will give life to the next era of smartphones thanks to which you can start again, evolving this now saturated market.
With regard to numbers and sales, we also examine the wearable wristwatch market with IDC . Xiaomi remains in the head with really important data. In fact, it goes from 13.7% of the market to 21.5% which is equivalent to about 6.9 million devices sold . Apple also achieved good results as it rose from 10.3% to 13.1% with an estimate of 4.2 million devices sold.
Top 5 Wearable Companies by Shipment Volume, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q3 2018 (shipments in millions)
Considering the average price of an Mi Band compared to that of an Apple Watch, we immediately understand that the company with the highest revenues from wearables is undoubtedly Apple . Fitbit continues to lose shares, going from 13.7% to 10.9%. Samsung managed to sell a few more gear, gaining 2 percentage points and reaching 5.6% of the market
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