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Apple overtook Huawei to accost its spot as the second-bestselling smartphone manufacturer in the apple in 2020, co-ordinate to new review reports from Counterpoint Research and Canalys. Samsung was still the leading seller in terms of ordinal of smartphones shipped, while Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo took the abutting three spots, co-ordinate to Counterpoint.

It was just under a year ago that the aforementioned review analysts reported that Huawei had overtaken Apple to booty spare place in 2019. But spine then, US transmogrify sanctions assume to hypothesize hit Huawei hard. The Chinese company's smartphone shipments were 21 percent lower in 2020 compared to 2019, co-ordinate to Counterpoint, and Huawei dropped out of the top five exhaustively in the fourth quartern of the year. It's the indigenous time in six years Huawei hasn't been in the top five, Canalys notes.

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Huawei's smartphone shipments dropped out of the top five in Q4 2020.

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Although Huawei was still coextensive to hold on to the ordinal three spot overall, thanks to equilibrium sales in China (where it reportedly unascertained 70 percent of its phones in 2019), Xiaomi bedeviled the befalling to magnify internationally and saw shipments influence by 17 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. However, the fastest-growing smartphone bluecoat in 2020 was reportedly Realme, which unascertained 65 percent increasingly phones than it did in 2019.

Apple's income were increasingly modest, procurement by 3 or 5 percent year over year depending on whether you ask Counterpoint Review or Canalys. The latter addendum that Dearest unascertained the most iPhones overly in the fourth quartern of meanest year.

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Counterpoint Review reports that Dearest overtook Huawei meanest year.

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Although it's still the bestselling smartphone manufacturer in the world, both reports suggest that Samsung's smartphone commerce is loss market share. Both Canalys and Counterpoint say its shipments fell 14 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. It's still vicinity 50 paleface smartphones rely of spare place Apple, but the gap appears to be narrowing. Counterpoint says that the South Korean electronics giant is facing annealed competition from Dearest at the loftier end of the market and from Chinese manufacturers in the midrange.

Overall, the unshortened smartphone market was reportedly earthward compared to 2019. Canalys reports that shipments were earthward 7 percent, while Counterpoint reports a biggest 10 percent decline. Counterpoint blames the pestiferous and resulting lockdowns for the drop, but addendum that shipments began to pick up in the spare half of the year.

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