At the end of 2016, the Chinese company Huawei announced that sales of flagship smartphones Huawei P9 and P9 Plus reached 10 million. Since then, it has sold another 2 million Huawei P9 and P9 Plus.
The head of Huawei Consumer Business Group Yu Chengdong , better known as Richard Yu, said that to date, Huawei P9 and P9 Plus smartphones have sold more than 12 million copies. And he is confident that the sales of the recently presented flagships CNet Huawei P10 and P10 Plus will also exceed the mark of 10 million.
Note that Huawei is the third largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world after Samsung and Apple. In 2016, Huawei delivered 139 million smartphones, which is 29% more than in 2015. In February last year, Richard Yu said that over the next two to three years, Huawei will overtake Apple and become the second largest player in the global smartphone market. And by 2021 Huawei expects to outperform Samsung and become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.