Huawei has revealed that 2015 was the year which finally saw it achieve its long-standing aim of shipping 100 million smartphones.
The Chinese company confirmed the news in a statement on its website, which noted that 2015 had seen a 33 percent increase in the number of smartphones shipped, as Huawei moved in to the top three largest vendors worldwide.
Huawei hailed the effect that premium devices (such as the Huawei P8 smartphone, pictured left) had had on its sales, with a third of the smartphones shipping by Huawei in the third quarter costing more than 2,000 yuan ($309).
Recent figures from IDC showed that Huawei accounted for 7.5 percent of all phones shipped globally in the third quarter of 2015, behind Apple’s 13.5 percent and Samsung’s leading 24 percent, thanks to Huawei having sold nearly 10 million smartphones every month since May.
Last month, the company said that it believes the end of the decade will herald a new generation of mobile phone known as the ‘superphone’.
It believes that each generation of device has a twelve year lifespan, with the era of the smartphone starting in 2007 with the launch of the first iPhone and Android device, which in turn marked the conclusion of the feature phone era initiated by Motorola in 1995.
The superphone will accompany the arrival of 5G networks, which could be commercially available by 2020, and offer superfast and reliable internet connections for mobile devices.
The company has also set itself the goal of becoming the world’s third biggest storage vendor by 2018, saying that “We don’t want to just be No.1 in China…We want to be at least the top 3 in the world by 2018,” earlier this month.
What do you know about the smartphones of 2015 so far? Try our quiz!
United Nations body to protect undersea communications cables that are crucial for international trade and…
Weeks after CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump privately at Mar-a-Lago, comes news of…
Protecting American clean energy businesses. Biden administration plans to raise tariffs on certain Chinese products
News fee. Australia looks introduce mandatory charge on social media platforms and search engines to…
Discover the AI skills your business needs, from machine learning to ethics, and learn how…
Apple highlights its UK investment has grown to £18 billion, as CEO Tim Cook meets…