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Look out Apple and Samsung: HUAWEI shipped over 100 million phones in 2015
June 23, 2025
When I got my hands on theHUAWEI Mate 7for the first time, I knew that this company was on to something. Despite some glaring software issues, the phone was highly attractive, the hardware was excellent, and the rear fingerprint scanner was one of the best implementations I’d ever witnessed. Since then, HUAWEI has only went uphill, introducing theHUAWEI Mate S, and more recently theNexus 6pandMate 8.Not only is the hardware prowess on the upward march, so is consumer interest it seems.
HUAWEI has now announced it has shipped more than 100 million smartphones this year, putting in on ground that is almost even with major competitors Samsung and Apple.
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The big difference between HUAWEI and the other ‘big two’ is that the bulk of the third largest phone manufacturer lies in China and other parts of Asia. That said, HUAWEI has made a push towardsthe western markets in 2015and in 2016 is reportedly set tobring the Mate 8, HONOR 5x, and other key productsto the United States. Will this continued push allow HUAWEI to jump ahead of the current smartphone kings, Samsung and Apple? While it’s hard to say for sure, there is no denying that HUAWEI is on a roll, like them or not.
For HUAWEI, it likely will come down to marketing, and software. HUAWEI has proven that it has the hardware and design side of things down, with the Nexus 6p winningour “people’s choice” awardfor the best Android phone of the year. If HUAWEI can find a way to makes it software more western market friendly on its non-Nexus devices, things will only go up from here.
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