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Samsung’s market share declines in India as Chinese brands continue to grow

Samsung has been facing cutthroat competition from Chinese brands in the Indian smartphone market for many years now. To avoid a repeat of its China debacle, the Korean tech giant has undertaken many measures in recent quarters to better compete with the rivals. Despite the company’s best efforts, it appears the Chinese brands are making […]

By Naresh
5 years ago

IDC places Samsung at a distant second in the Indian smartphone market

Though Samsung has been reduced to irrelevance in China, the world’s largest smartphone market, the company continues to have a much stronger presence in the second largest smartphone market, India. Even in India, the Korean company has been facing an uphill task with the mushrooming of Chinese brands, resulting in loss of margins and market […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung was the top global smartphone vendor in 2018

Samsung held on to its crown of the top global smartphone vendor last year amid intense competition from its rivals. It still stands tall above the rest when you look at the sheer numbers that it's shipping out. The contraction in the overall smartphone market has hit its biggest rival Apple as well. Both companies […]

By Adnan Farooqui
6 years ago

Samsung leads the premium smartphone segment in India, says CMR

Towards the end of last month, a report from Counterpoint Research crowned OnePlus as the largest premium smartphone vendor in India with a 40% market share. A new report from CyberMedia Research (CMR), however, says Samsung dominated the premium smartphone segment in the country with 48% market share in the first half of 2018. Though […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Contradicting other reports, IDC puts Xiaomi at the top in the Indian smartphone market

When IDC, Strategy Analytics, and Canalys published their Q2 2018 global smartphone shipment numbers, all their findings were in sync in spite of minor differences in data. When it comes to the Indian market, however, the figures from IDC tell an entirely different story from that of Canalys and Counterpoint Research. Both Canalys and Counterpoint […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung’s market share in China tanked below 1% once again

It is no secret that Samsung is in a dire state in the Chinese smartphone market. In fact, the company has been struggling to retain its market share in most markets around the world, but the situation in China is particularly worse as the company’s market share dropped to negligible levels there. Samsung executives acknowledged […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung remains at the top in Q2 global smartphone rankings

We reported about the Q2 2018 global smartphone shipments data from Counterpoint Research yesterday. IDC, Strategy Analytics, and Canalys have also published the second quarter shipment numbers, and we decided to do a combined post on these new reports. All these reports agree on the state of the global smartphone market and vendor rankings, but […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

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