HONG KONG: China´s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which overtook Apple Inc as the world´s second-largest smartphone vendor in the June quarter, forecast global smartphone shipments exceeding 200 million this year, a recovery after a sharp slowdown last year.
That would represent a 31 percent growth in shipments for 2018. Huawei had shipped 153 million smartphones last year, up just 10 percent over 2016. Its shipments had grown
by 29 percent in 2016.Company executives said at a briefing on Friday Huawei shipped more than 95 million smartphones
in the first six months, adding it was possible it could
become the world´s No. 1 player in the fourth quarter of next year.
The shipments forecast comes as a slowdown in the world´s biggest smartphone market, China, has eased.
Huawei has also managed to get ahead of rivals by selling more feature-packed phones, analysts said.
"It´s no question that we become the No. 2 next year; in Q4 next year it´s possible we become No. 1," Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei´s consumer business group, which includes the smartphones operations, told the conference.
Huawei overtook Apple for the first time in smartphone shipments in the second quarter of the year, according to data from industry trackers IHS Markit and Strategy Analytics, with a market share of more than 15 percent, partly driven by gains in China.
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