RANKS OF SMARTPHONE PRODUCERS. Their is one thing Africans and Ugandans in particular should know, you NEED TO REMOVE THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHINESE PRODUCTS. SAMSUNG, LG, HTC, XIAOMI, HUAWEI AND EVEN APPLE are all assembled in CHINA. Anyone having a smartphone or flat screen, chances are very high that your holding a Chinese product. Europe doesnt produce much, and whatever they produce is too costly for Africans to buy, so china manufacturers the same phones at subsidized prices. These phones are then shipped all over the world ....including UK and USA. So not everything coming from china is fake or duplicate. The biggest producer and distributer of smartphones is samsung, followed by apple, then XIAOMI (this is restricted only to Asia), then LG and Lenovo are in fourth place. Notice ALL these phones are either manufactured or assembled in CHINA. Samsungs still the biggest, but others are catching up fast Over the past three months, more than 327 million new smartphones were shipped out from factories around the world, and young Chinese company Xiaomi has been responsible for more than 5 percent of them. That, according to IDCs latest figures, is enough to place it in third spot behind established leaders Samsung and Apple, overshadowing global competitors like Lenovo and LG. Xiaomis rise has been remarkable both for how quick it has been and for the fact that the company still operates primarily in its home market of China. It has recently broadened its reach to adjacent countries in Southeast Asia like India and Singapore, but its growth remains testament to the incredible explosion in smartphone demand that China is experiencing. A separate report from Strategy Analytics agrees with IDCs conclusions, while also highlighting Samsung as the biggest market share loser. Both data firms report Samsung ceding roughly 10 percentage points, meaning its gone from commanding a third of the global smartphone market a year ago to a quarter today. The impact of this slowdown has been felt immediately by Samsung, which just reported its smallest set of quarterly earnings in a long time. Apples as steady as ever, growing iPhone shipments with the release of its new 6 series, while LG, Lenovo, and Huawei are among a big group of companies contesting the fourth and fifth spots. As to Xiaomi, the company remains committed to its low-cost approach and will continue expanding internationally, however its global VP Hugo Barra told The Wall Street Journal this week that the United States does not figure in the companys expansion plans.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:31:17 +0000
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