Key Takeaways: Global Handset Sell-in & Sell-Through Declines Sell-through improved in all regions including USA, Europe and Japan. However, China and India were weak. India, in particular, had a big drop in feature phones as brands like Jio...

In November 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 134.0 million units, down 3.0% YoY and down 2.7% MoM. The decline was mainly due to weaker year-on-year sales in China, the US, and India smartphone market.   Table of Contents :&...

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: The global smartphone market remained almost flat during Q3 2019, reaching 380 million units in shipments, as compared to 379.8 million units in Q3 2018. Overall, the smartphone market is undergoing a wave of transition. The transition from 3G to ...

Overview: Global Cellular 5G IoT will ship 30 million Gateways by 2025. Over the next decade, the IoT gateways market will grow by three-fold.  Huawei will continue to lead in Europe and China in the near to mid-term. However, in the US, brands like Cr...

Key Takeaways: Global Handset Sell-in & Sell-Through Inclines Further October sell-in was 174M vs sell through of 168.5M. The gap is reducing showing sell-through is improving as the holiday seasons come. Most regions showed growth against l...

In October 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 137.6 million units, up 0.9% YoY and 6.7% MoM. The strong smartphone market in October was fueled by Apple’s new iPhone 11-family sales.   Table of Contents :  Glo...

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 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...

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 in-depth analysis of global markets 140+ brands now...

Overview: India Smartphone market is estimated to grow at double digits for the next two years as there are still first-time smartphone users who can be tapped along with the users using older 2G and 3G smartphones. 2019 is going to be a growth year for maj...

Key Takeaways:  Global Handset Sell-in & Sell-Through Inclines Sell-through was strong compared to August as it jumped 11% MoM. India was most impressive as Diwali related sales promotions helped bolster sales. However it was still weaker ...

In September 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 129.0 million units, up 0.3% YoY and 10.2% MoM. The strong smartphone market in September was fueled by Apple’s iPhone 11-family sales.   Table of Contents :  ...

Overview: Huawei’s 10th Global Mobile Broadband Forum was attended by more than 2,000 industry executives from leading telcos across the globe. The key theme of the event was “5G, Gear Up” stressing that 5G roll-out is well underway and ac...

Key Takeaways:  Global Handset Sell-in & Sell-Through Declined Sell-through was weak during August as it was the holiday season and most European markets were weak. India also showed weakness in demand as with other Asian markets. Japan an...

In August 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 116.9 million units, down 8.1% YoY and 1.1% MoM. In terms of seasonality, the lower sales were also recorded in July 2018 with a slight recovery in August 2018.   Table of Contents&nbs...

Overview: Global smartphone market shipments declined 3% year-on-year (YoY) in 2019 Q2. The mature markets are slowing down, however 5G brings a promise of immense opportunity.  In these transition times, it becomes important to the ecosystem players t...

In July 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 118.2 million units, down 7.2% YoY and 0.4% MoM. The MoM decline in July is expected to have a negative impact on results for 2019. Most regions, except India, saw a YoY decline.   Table o...

Key Takeaways:  Global Handset Sell-in Inclines, Sell-Through Declines Marginally Sell through was slightly weak in July as major markets of China, US, India all were weak. Europe was mixed as UK was up while Italy, Spain were down. Asian mark...

Our Q2-2019 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize the smartphone and feature phone market activities in a single page. Some quick observations from the smartphone market:  ...