Tag: smartphone market

January 17, 2024

In a declining smartphone market that’s increasingly competitive for Samsung – and where hardware differentiation is getting harder – of course, it’s also a practical choice that simply reflects the reality of today’s market. The new software-first strategy also reflects […]

November 13, 2023

Unlike other major markets around the world, like China, India, or Europe, which have seen a number of different companies rise and fall to and from leadership positions over the last few years, North America remains under one smartphone vendor’s […]

August 16, 2023

It took a long time for Apple to climb to the top and now we may be in for the most impossible “King of the Hill” game of all time! Once upon a time, Samsung was the undisputed leader in […]

July 31, 2023

A new analysis from Counterpoint reveals the free fall of the Indian smartphone market might be coming to an end. Overall shipments dropped just 3% compared to Q1, which is less than analysts expected. Counterpoint researchers believe that the improving […]

January 17, 2023

The final quarter of 2022 was not such a great one for the smartphone industry. Research firm Canalys released a report today revealing that smartphone deliveries declined by 17% to less than 1.2 million units for the three months from […]

November 4, 2022

Counterpoint Research posted its quarterly analysis of the smartphone market in India. The numbers for Q3 2021 revealed an 11% overall decline in sales on a yearly basis – down to 45 million units. This is the first yearly decline […]

June 16, 2022

The European smartphone market experienced its worst first quarter in nearly a decade and analysts at Counterpoint Research warn that things will get even worse before they get better. The market fell 12% compared to the first three months of […]

May 20, 2022

The iPhone 13 was the third best-selling smartphone of 2021 despite only being on sale for three months, so it’ll come as no surprise to hear that Apple’s device is off to an extremely strong start in 2022. The iPhone […]

December 1, 2021

According to a report by The Elec, a South Korean media outlet, Samsung has some ambitious goals for 2022 and aims at 21.9% share of the global smartphone market. Samsung execs think that the prolonged pandemic will likely increase the […]

July 29, 2021

Apple trailed in third place with 48.9 million iPhones shipped, followed by Oppo at 34 million units shipped and Vivo at 33 million. It wasn’t all sunshine and unicorns, however, as global smartphone shipments collectively fell by seven percent quarter […]

July 27, 2021

The US smartphone market isn’t as competitive as the European one, but in the first half of 2021 there was a lot of movement as consumer demand rebounded and LG announced its exit. Apple and Samsung continue to lead the […]

June 10, 2021

Demand for smartphones nosedived in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but new research shows that the global smartphone market is on track to rebound quickly in 2021. The smartphone market is rebounding quickly thanks, in part, to […]

April 29, 2021

Data from Omdia indicates that during the first quarter of 2021, worldwide smartphone shipments rose a strong 28.1% compared to the number delivered during last year’s first three months. The number of units shipped rose to 353 million from the […]

April 15, 2021

According to the latest Weekly Smartphone Market Share report from Counterporint Research, vivo is now the leader in terms of market share in China. The report covers week 11 of the current year (March 8-14) and awards vivo a 24% […]

April 1, 2021

When your business has been operating at a net loss for the past six years, there are few ways you can go about staying afloat. In the case of LG Mobile, shutting down all further efforts now seems like the […]

February 26, 2021

The smartphone market as a whole experienced a massive downturn last year due to the economic impact of COVID-19. Europe was hit especially hard, and now Counterpoint Research has revealed how each brand endured. The iPhone 12 was Apple’s most […]

August 4, 2020

While 5G networks are still pretty hard to access in many major smartphone markets around the world, not to mention largely useless due to their modest or outright non-existent speed gains over 4G connectivity available in a lot of places […]

July 21, 2020

India was obviously not the only major smartphone market negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in recent months, but although things were pretty bad in the US as well between April and June, the latest data collected and published by […]

January 27, 2020

While we continue to wait for the global smartphone sales numbers of 2019’s final three months to be released to see just how poorly the market has performed last year compared to an already pretty bad 2018, Counterpoint Research is […]

December 26, 2019

The iPhone XR announced last September was the top-selling smartphone across the globe in Q3 2019, according to a report by Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse. It captured a market share of 3% and also remained the best-selling smartphone in every […]