Huawei Tops Samsung in Smartphone Shipments
Huawei is thriving on its home turf
Canalys
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The new Game of Phones episode didn’t garner the ratings of the blockbuster antitrust hearing, so I can’t blame you for missing it. The latest:
House Huawei is thriving on its home turf. The company controls nearly half the smartphone market in China and in Q2 shipped nearly 56 million handsets, per Canalys, making it the world’s leading smartphone vendor for the first time.
- Takeaway: Huawei is doing A-OK without Google software.
House Samsung, on the other hand, is warming to a Google alliance. The two are in talks to prominently feature the Gundle (Google service bundle) on Samsung devices, Bloomberg reported. This could lead to the banishment of Bixby, Samsung’s voice assistant.
- Takeaway: Samsung has struggled to develop its own mobile OS and apps. Getting some $ from Google to pre-install its (better) services may just work.
On the horizon, 5G is coming. Huawei and Samsung have plenty of devices on the market, but the 5G iPhone (whenever it comes) will pose stiff competition.
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