Xiaomi Surpasses Huawei to Become Third-Biggest Smartphone Maker in February

A new report from market place enquiry firm Strategy Analytics (via Sina Tech) reveals that Xiaomi has surpassed Huawei for the first time to emerge as the superlative-tertiary smartphone brand in the month of February in terms of global smartphone sales.

The written report credits Xiaomi'south online-centric smartphone sales for making this possible. According to the study, Huawei shipped 5.5 meg smartphones in February whereas Xiaomi shipped 6 one thousand thousand devices during the same menses. To put that in perspective, Huawei shipped 12.ii million handsets in January while Xiaomi made ten million smartphone shipments in the same month.

The numbers were low across the board, mainly due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments brutal 38 percentage year-on-year from 99.2 million units in February (2019) to 61.8 million in February (2020), making it the everyman fall ever.

"February 2020 saw the biggest autumn always in the history of the worldwide smartphone market. Supply and demand of smartphones plunged in Mainland china, slumped beyond Asia, and slowed in the rest of the globe. It is a menses the smartphone industry will desire to forget.", said Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics in a statement.

Samsung topped the table with eighteen.2 one thousand thousand shipments, followed by Apple at x.two one thousand thousand. Other Chinese companies like Oppo and Vivo too recorded depression number of shipments. Have a look at the table below for the exact numbers.

global smartphone shipments february — Credits: Strategy Analytics

With more and more than countries nearing lockdown to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the smartphone sales numbers are likely to go further low next month before it gets whatsoever better.