Middle East Smartphone Market Sees Light at the End of 2020 Tunnel
The Middle East smartphone market contracted in 2020 after experiencing big declines during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the second…
T-Mobile Ends 2020 Like It Started – Leading The Net Add Race
T-Mobile pre-announced a spectacular Q4 and 2020 despite the headwinds of COVID-19. T-Mobile saw 1.7 million net additions in Q4, which we expect…
Japan Smartphone Sales Recover to Pre-COVID Levels in Q3 2020
• Low- and mid-end devices drive recovery • Q4 to maintain momentum, led by iPhone 12 Japan’s smartphone market showed clear signs of recovery in Q3…
BoM Analysis: iPhone 12 Costs 21% More Than iPhone 11
The blended materials cost for the iPhone 12 with 128GB NAND flash is nearly $415, a 21% increase over the iPhone 11. In the iPhone 12, Apple’s…
Transsion Continues to Ascend in Africa’s Mobile Handset Market
Transsion Holdings, the leading mobile phone brand in Africa, went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in September 2019. The company currently has…
iPhone 12 Becomes World’s #1 5G Model Within Two Weeks of Launch
The iPhone 12 became the world’s best-selling 5G smartphone model in October despite a delayed launch, which resulted in only two weeks of sales…
Digital Contact Tracing Effective Shield Against Pandemic
History tells us pandemics like COVID-19 can recur in some form or other. Their basic characteristics of mutating and spreading quickly among large…
Chinese Brands Set to Challenge Samsung in LATAM
Latin America’s smartphone market dynamics have changed significantly in 2020. Sales plunged in H1 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic forced closure of…
INFOGRAPHIC: Q3-2020 | MOBILE MARKET MONITOR
Our Q3-2020 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize the mobile handset market activities in…
OnePlus targets upper mid-tier for record quarterly smartphone shipments in Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands
OnePlus grew strongly in Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands, with shipments more than doubling annually in Q3 2020. According to Counterpoint…
Samsung Note 20 Ultra Top-selling 5G Smartphone Globally in Sept 2020
The Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5G was the bestselling model globally in September 2020, capturing 5% share among all 5G models, according to Counterpoint…
A Week of iPhone 12 Sales at US Carrier Stores
The new iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro have now been selling in the US since October 23 and carriers are finally seeing more traction compared to the…
Three Improvements Apple Made for Cameras of its iPhone 12 Pros
On October 13, Apple released its iPhone 12 series, including the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Much of the…
Survey: Online Smartphone Sales Sustain Growth in UK, Germany, Spain
While a cheaper deal is important, UK smartphone consumers are looking at convenience (55%) most, even after COVID-19. Consumers in Germany and…
Germany Smartphone Sales Plunge 27% in Q2 2020; Apple, Xiaomi Gain
The Germany smartphone market had the worst quarter at the height of COVID-19, with sales plunging 27% from a year earlier. However, the market now…
Will Higher (Above 90Hz) Refresh Rate Screen Become a Standard Feature?
As smartphone market is saturated, companies are trying to differentiate their products through various specifications. Display size, Pixel per inch…
US Smartphone Recovery Continues in July; Key Entry Devices are Launched
The US market continues to see sell-through volumes recover after the tremendous slow down seen in April and May due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The US…
Huawei’s Struggles in European Telecoms
It has been a tough year for Huawei. And things will only get tougher. In July, the UK government announced that UK carriers are banned from…