Global Smartphone Shipments Amounted to 346 Million Units - mundobabodest1940

While the international smartphone shipments remittent drastically during early 2022 due to the Coronavirus-led pandemic, the smartphone marketplace slowly gained pace over again over the erstwhile year. Now, as per a report card from IDC (Worldwide Data Corporation), the global smartphone shipments grew by over 25% during the first quarter of 2022. The total number of smartphones shipped aside all vendors during the draw and quarter amounts to close to 346 million units.

"The recovery is legal proceeding quicker than we expected, clearly demonstrating a healthy appetence for smartphones globally. But amidst this fantastic increment, we must think back that we are comparing against one of the worst quarters in smartphone history,1Q20, the start of the pandemic when the bulk of the supply range was at a check and China was in high lockdown," stated Nabila Popal, the Director of research at IDC's Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers.

As per the IDC theme, the accelerated growth of smartphone shipments is a result of strong growth in markets such A China and the Asia/Pacific region (excluding China and Japan). Two of the largest markets for smartphones saw growth of 30% and 28% respectively, accounting for one-half of entirely the global shipments, which is around 173 million units.

Top 5 Global Smartphone Manufacturers

Moreover, as the commercialize found from the demand, supply, and manufacturing issues caused away the current pandemic, it shook the competitive scene a trifle. For starters, Huawei is nowadays in the end out of the Top 5 manufacturers in the global smartphone shipment chart (figure of speech below) due to its controversies with the US Government.

This sealed the way for other smartphone manufacturers, mainly the Chinese brands such as Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo to climb up the chart. The same companies grew 14.1%, 10.8%, and 10.1% respectively to acquire the 3rd, 4th, and 5th positions in the global smartphone shipments chart.

According to the report, the low- and middle-range segment was also dominated by the above three smartphone brands as the high-close market share was acquired by tech giants such Eastern Samoa Apple and Samsung. In fact, Apple recently reported that it earned a whopping $89.6 cardinal in gross during its Q2 of 2022.

Meanwhile, Samsung is back at the top spot as IT shipped over 75.3 million devices during the said quarter, gaining a 21.8% securities industry percentage. While Samsung's growth was boosted past Coltsfoot S21 serial, the iPhone 12 series did the same for the Cupertino giant with around 55.1 million units shipped. This led Apple to put on an even 16% of the market share.

Going forward, the VP of IDC's Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers Ryan Reith says that many smartphone companies are eyeing to capture the commercialize share that has been left by LG. With the company exiting the smartphone industry recently, Reith says that "it is safe to assume that 6-10 brands are eyeing this share chance."