Overview:  The Ecuadorian market is one of the most untapped markets in South America. Although its GDP per capita is only slightly lower than neighboring Colombia and Peru, its smartphone sales per subscriber are three times lower. The current governm...

Overview: realme, the fastest growing smartphone brand globally entered the top five brands in Spain in November 2019. The brand was able to achieve this within one month of its launch in the country, making it one of the fastest ramp-ups in the Spanish sma...

Overview: The contribution from online sales reached its highest ever share of 56% during Diwali sale period which includes Big Billion Days and Amazon’s Great India Festive sales. Apart from price discounts, No-cost EMIs, exchange offers, bank card o...

Overview: Counterpoint Research has been tracking the global smartphone industry on a monthly basis. According to Counterpoint’s latest model tracker, Apple maintained the top spot in the global smartphone model by revenue list. Samsung, on the other ...

Overview: Displays drive a major part of the overall smartphone experience. In 2019 smartphone displays gained a lot of attention in a bid to attract users to upgrade their smartphones. Some notable supply chain efforts and  innovations  drove the...

Overview: The overall revenue of Maroc reached 9.5 MAD billion (nearly 1.0 USD billion) with 2.9% YoY growth in Q3 2019. The increase in global market subscribers, data consumption and mobile money services were the reasons for growth. Maroc is operational ...

Overview: This short report discusses the latest trends of in-display and under-glass (UG) fingerprint sensors (FPS) for smartphones. It highlights the overall market dynamics and provides information about the penetration of devices with in-display fingerp...

Overview: Nigeria handset market grew by 21% in Q3 2019 due to growth in feature phone segment. This was driven by growth of Itel and Tecno in the feature phone segment. Despite the slowdown in smartphone market, it continued to hold significant importance ...

Overview: The “Smartphone Industry Chain Summit 2019 – Growth Opportunity and Technical Challenges in the 5G Era”, jointly held by Counterpoint Research and Reed Expo, concluded in Shenzhen on Nov 22, 2019. During the summit, analysts from...

Overview: This report highlights the ISRO navigation system with Indian Constellation (NavIC) with seven IRNSS satellites as a regional navigation system offering Positioning, Navigation and Timing services to users in its service area. It further talks abo...

Overview: Counterpoint analysts were one of the select few analysts invited for Qualcomm 5G Summit in Barcelona in October 2019. It’s one of the premier mobile industry event and we gathered first-hand insights from Qualcomm and from our interactions ...

Our Q3-2019 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize the handset and smartphone market activities in a single page. Some quick observations from the smartphone market: Global smartphon...

Overview: Smartphone shipments in the online channel reached their highest ever share of 46% during Q3 2019, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service. Online channel shipments grew 55% year-on-year (YoY) in Q3 2...

Overview: The saturating global smartphone market has curbed the overall demand for smartphone display panels in 2018 and 2019. Despite the sluggish overall market, shipments of smartphones with OLED displays have grown, against the downward market trend, ...

Overview: Samsung has been revamping its portfolio strategy and reducing in-house design and manufacturing for some key mid-tier models. The beneficiaries are Chinese design and manufacturing houses which are growing in scale. The research analysis succinct...

Overview:  Over 30 operators have launched 5G services in six months as initial 5G rollout has been faster than 4G. Over 150 smartphones will be commercially available with 5G by end of 2019. Release 16 and 17 will bring in 5G specification for use-ca...

Overview: The Vietnamese smartphone market is transforming into an attractive market with continued and stable economic growth and a relatively large population. Thus, many global OEMs are paying attention to Vietnam smartphone market under the global sm...

Overview: The report provides that how local manufacturing has increased in Bangladesh due to rise in import duty on the smartphone. Currently, five brands are doing local manufacturing in Bangladesh and Vivo will be starting its operation soon. Grameen Dis...

Overview: VinGroup, one of the largest enterprise in Vietnam has been making news with its aggressive entry into the smartphone segment under the brand name Vsmart. The OEM entered the smartphone segment with acquisition of BQ and has developed manufacturin...

Overview: With the democratization of technology, long battery life, large memory and multiple cameras are now common features in many smartphones. New features like dust and water resistance are slowly filtering into mid- and low-tier segments. Smartp...