Last year, the Chinese company Huawei delivered more than 100 million smartphones. The company accounts for 7.4% of total smartphone shipments in 2015. This allowed Huawei to become the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world after Samsung and Apple.
Today, Huawei has announced that during the first quarter of 2016 it sold 28.3 million smartphones. And by the end of this year, according to PhoneArena, it plans to deliver a total of 140 million smartphones, which will be 30% more than in 2015. By the way, the previously anonymous sources reported that Huawei has adjusted its forecast downwards and expects to ship in 2016.
According to Huawei product manager Kevin Ho (Kevin Ho), today the company has shipped about 2.6 million new flagship smartphone Huawei P9 and P9 Plus . They debuted in April and are equipped with a dual-core camera.
Recall that in June, Huawei CEO Richard Yu (Richard Yu) said that by 2021 his company expects by 2021 to become the largest manufacturer of smartphones, leaving behind the current leaders in the face of Samsung and Apple.