Key Takeaways Global Sell-in and Sell-Through Inclines. Sell-through grew 3% compared to April. It could have been better but the Huawei trade ban has taken it’s toll as a mismatch in the market seems to have occurred. All major markets like ...

Overview: After the raise in tariff to 25% the US has imposed a trade ban on Huawei. China has no intention to cede ground either. It has also imposed a 25% tariff on US exports to China. It is unlikely that this battle will find an easy or quick resol...

In April 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 118.5 million units, growing 2.3% year-on-year (YoY) and 2.7% month-on-month (MoM). The global smartphone market grew YoY in all regions except China.   Table of Contents :  ...

Key Takeaways: Global Sell-in Declines, Sell-through Improves: Smartphone sell-through improved in most major markets including US, India and even China. EU remained flat while Japan registered negative growth. Sell-in has gone down thus inventory improv...

Overview: The US trade ban on Huawei has come as expected. As a result, Huawei is prohibited from buying or selling anything from technology to components from US firms. Not only does Huawei lose access to US technology in ARM-based processors it also can&#...

Overview: Sri Lanka faces an economic crisis triggered due to political uncertainty and rising clashes among local communities and it’s mobile handset market shipment declined 6% QoQ and reached 1.6 million units in Q1 2019. Smartphone contribution to...

Overview Global mobile phone shipments reached 436 million units globally in Q1 2019 with a YoY decline of 12%. Global smartphone shipments reached 341 million units in Q1 2018 with 6% annual decline. The global smartphone market showed no sign of re...

Overview This report is one of the series of reports which tracks mobile handset: Smartphone and Feature Phone shipments every quarter for more than 140 brands covering more than 95% of the total device shipments in the industry.  Global mob...

Overview: Global smartwatch shipments grew a healthy rate of 48% year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 2019 driven by Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei. The report Includes the Smartwatch Shipment by Quarter by Brand from 2015 to Q1 2019 to provide a trend at the brand...

In March 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 115.4 million units, up 5.0% year-on-year (YoY) and 6.3% month-on-month (MoM). The YoY growth in March was a trend in all regions apart from the Asia Pacific excluding China and India.   ...

Key Takeaways: Global Sell-in and Sell-through Increases: Sell-through Smartphone sell-in is 4% up sequentially while sell-through is 6% up. This shows some clean-up of inventory and pick-up in consumer sales. All markets, except for a handful of markets...

In February 2019, the global smartphone market recorded sales of 108.9 million units, down 7.9% year-on-year (YoY) and 14.3% month-on-month (MoM). This was the lowest sales volume since February 2015. Sales in the Chinese market fell 19.6% YoY. It was primaril...

Key Takeaways: Global Sell-in and Sell-through Declines Further: Sell through was down. There was no exception this month. All regions and major countries saw a decline including Japan and Korea which usually show growth during the February season. But s...

Overview: This report examines the current state of 5G and commercialization roadmap for it. In addition to this, it also analyses the progress made by various bodies towards 5G standardization. It thereafter exhaustively examines the spectrum, device ...

Our CY-2018 Infographic has been published. We release one Infographic every year to summarize the handset and smartphone market activities in a single page. Some quick observations from this edition:  Global smartphone shipments declined 4%...

Key Takeaways: Global Sell-in and Sell-Through Declines: Sell-through was weak through all regions except for Japan and Korea. China sell through was slightly better than December but showed negative growth YoY. Sell in dropped more than sell through sho...

Overview: The report is an extended analysis of the Bill of Materials covering the components that constitute Huawei Watch GT. This will help in understanding the cost structure and the Components Used in the latest Smartwatch Offering from Huawei. Table...

In January 2019, the global smartphone market posted the lowest sales since Jan 2014, with sales of 127 million units, down by 3.0% YoY and 6.4% MoM. It was mainly due to a 4% to 5% decline in sales across all regions except India and LATAM. Table of Conten...

Our Q4-2018 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 this edition:  Global smartphone s...

Overview This report is one of the series of reports which tracks mobile handset: Smartphone and Feature Phone shipments every quarter for more than 140 brands covering more than 95% of the total device shipments in the industry.  Global mob...