Overview: The global smartphone market recovered in 2021 driven by pent-up demand in regions like North America, Latin America and India. However, market growth was lower than expected due to the extended impact of COVID-19, Huawei and LG’s exit,...

Overview: Global handset market wholesale revenue grew 5% YoY and 31% QoQ during the fourth quarter of 2021. While shipments declined YoY due to component shortages, strong iPhone shipments drove record handset revenues of over $135 billion. Smartpho...

Overview:  Counterpoint Research uniquely tracks both sell-in and sell-through of mobile handsets in the market, giving a broader perspective of the market dynamics. This report covers quarterly sell-in vs sell-through of Apple iPhone models along with...

Overview:  This report covers the global mobile phone shipment by air interface technology including market share and rankings by regions and key countries. The deliverable includes: Single pivot format giving an in-depth analysis of global ma...

Overview: This report is part of a series of reports which track the mobile handset market: Smartphone and Feature Phone shipments every quarter for more than 140 brands covering more than 95% of the total device shipments in the industry.  The deli...

Overview: The Smartphone Intelligence Tracker gives the Counterpoint perspective on a curated collection of recent news and other articles that have made an impact on the smartphone ecosystem (OEMs, app ecosystem, policy, and more). It gives readers an idea...

Overview: Demand and supply both improves in December The Global smartphone supply and demand both improved in December. Overall, Shipments increased in December, as supply improved, and OEMs built inventory for the year-end sales. Sales also gr...

Overview: After a disappointing October, iPhone sales recovered strongly in November 2021, resulting in Apple finally overtaking Samsung to take the number one spot in Europe. Yes, the lead was slim, but is it back to business as usual for Apple? Table o...

Ovevrview: The global smartphone market grew 6% QoQ to reach 342 million units in Q3 2021. However, the market declined 6% YoY due to the ongoing global component shortages and slow recovery of key markets such as China and parts of Europe. India&...

Overview:  China smartphone installed base reached 1,114.8 million in 2021 3Q. Huawei captured 31% of installed base. Among top 20 installed base, Apple captured 6, OPPO captured 6, Huawei captured 5, and vivo captured 2, and HONOR captured 1 position....

Overview:  Germany smartphone installed base reached 67.7 million in 2021 3Q. Apple captured 34% of installed base. Among top 20 installed base, Apple captured 14, Samsung captured 5, and Huawei captured 1 position. 5G penetration rate has been increas...

Overview: Sales grow in most regions driven by promotions, sell-in increases ahead of the holiday season Global Handset sales declined 2% MoM in December. China, parts SEA, LA, MEA and Europe all grew driven by the Singles day and Black Friday sale...

Overview: As tablets have a shorter viewing time than smartphones and televisions, manufacturers have not seen the need for using higher-quality displays in tablets so far. However, as consumers spend more time on their tablets for remote learning and worki...

Overview:  Counterpoint Research analysts observed some interesting take-aways from the largest shopping days of 2021. These insights highlight some major trends of 2021 that will continue into 2022.  Table of content: • Singles’ Da...

Overview: The iPhone 13 launch has not gone completely to plan in Europe, with Apple failing to overtake Samsung in the first full month of sales – a very unusual occurrence. Meanwhile, Xiaomi continued to suffer in Europe, dropping to its lowest shar...

Overview: The global smartphone market has been experiencing a demand-supply imbalance ever since the start of 2020. Semiconductors are in short supply with all the OEMs facing the effects. This is the result of a mix of factors: The COVID-19 pandemic...

Overview: This report looks at the performance of major global handset vendors from both a shipment as well as a revenue point of view Table of Contents: Annual and Quarterly Shipment Comparison Annual and Quarterly Revenue Comparison Impact of...

Overview: The new Apple iPhone 13 series is a big hit with consumers, but supply issues are holding back sales. This report compares sales of the iPhone 13 series to last year's iPhone 12 series to see how the iPhone 13 series is performing compared to ...

Overview: “The global smartphone AP (Application Processor)/SoC (System on Chip) chipset shipments grew 6% YoY in Q3 2021. 5G smartphone SoC shipments grew almost two times compared to the same period a year ago. MediaTek leads the smartphone SoC mark...

Overview:  The global tablet market grew 4% QoQ but contracted 12% YoY in Q3 2021. The market demand was still strong, particularly for the latest models with upgrades. However, continued supply constraints resulting from component shortages and logist...