Overview: India’s smartphone shipments declined 9% YoY to reach over 152 million units in 2022. The YoY decline, which is the second ever in India’s smartphone market, can be attributed to the decline in entry-level and budget segments which fac...

Overview: India smartphone market declined 25% YoY in Dec 2022 due to a decline in consumer demand impacting smartphone shipments. Currently, according to our preliminary estimates, the smartphone market is sitting on more than 8 weeks of inventory. This...

Overview: The annual global smartphone shipment volume is estimated to decline by 11% YoY in 2022, as more consumers refrained from purchasing phones amid rising global uncertainties. Amid the underwhelming condition of the global smartphone market, glob...

Overview: European consumers are having a tough time. Dire financial conditions, spiralling energy prices and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine have resulted in bills soaring to record highs and consumer confidence plumbing record lows. Against thi...

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...

Table of Contents: Global Sell-in vs Sell through Global Smartphone Market Analysis: Market Share by OEMs, Price band USA, China, India, Europe Smartphone Market Analysis, and insights Global Hardware Feature Analysis: Key Specs – Camera, Dis...

Overview: Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse is a monthly service analysing the Global Handset Market Sell Through Landscape by OEMs, Regions, Models, specifications, and latest developments giving a holistic view of the industry.  This mont...

Overview: The Japanese smartphone market saw sales of 25.7 million units during January-October 2022, showing a negative growth rate of 25% YoY. The decline in the Japanese smartphone market was mainly due to (1) increased smartphone price burden on cons...

Overview: Counterpoint Research analysts attended CES 2023 in Las Vegas, USA. This report provides a snapshot of some of the major announcements and key themes at the event. Major themes and hot topics included: security, sustainability, automotive and XR. ...

Overview: In 2022, the Global Smartphone Market had to navigate muted demand, high inflation, rocketing energy prices, uncertain macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions, and the COVID situation in China. Global smartphone sales declined year on year (YoY)...

Overview: Our quarterly reports deliver all research notes and blogs published by our analysts during the past three months. They cover trends and provide data on a regional and global basis. We hope the reports are helpful and give you a better idea of ...

Overview:  The global smartphone market declined 12% YoY but increased 3% QoQ in Q3 2022 to 301.9 million units. Apple and Samsung’s quarterly growth helped global smartphone shipments rise above 300 million units, a level it failed to reach last...

Overview: Smartphone shipments fell 4.8% QoQ to slightly below 35 million units, marking the region’s third straight quarterly decline. Q3 2022 was MEA’s worst quarter since Q2 2020 in terms of shipments. Further, smartphone penetration in Q3 20...

Overview:  Despite sales events like Black Friday and Singles’ Day, global smartphone sales in November fell 5.6% from the previous month and 14.3% from the previous year to 99.77 million units. This decline was aided by the sharp drop in US a...

Overview: In recent years, inspired by the success of Huawei and HiSilicon, Chinese OEMs OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi (OVM) have started to invest in chip development, targeting a commensurate breakthrough in the premium smartphone segment. However, Huawei and HiS...

Overview: The Indian smartphone market declined 43% YoY in Nov. One of the major reasons was the high inventory build-up in the channels. The festive season’s performance was modest, especially in the entry-tier and budget segments. This exacerbated t...

Overview: Chinese smartphone maker OPPO hosted the OPPO INNO DAY 2022, its fourth annual technology launch event, on December 14. During the event, apart from highlighting innovation in the underlying technologies, essential capabilities and devices design...

Overview: In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, where all things are connected over the internet, Battery of Things (BoT) is in the limelight as the future of the energy industry. Battery technology is especially essential for connecting tech gadgets, such a...

Overview: This report tracks monthly India smartphone shipments by brand by model across different e-commerce channel platforms like Flipkart, Amazon, Mi.com, Paytm, Snapdeal and others. It also tracks 100+ model level specifications which gives an in-depth...

Overview:  Foundry Companies’ Share by Revenue TSMC was the winner in Q3 2022 by gaining 200-300bps of market share, driven by a significant ramp-up of 4/5nm products including new iPhones AP (A16) and AMD/NVIDIA’s new HPC chips. Samsung&r...