Vivo V19: Good Cameras, Appealing Design & Long Battery Life
Vivo V19 comes with quad rear and dual front cameras.
The smartphone is armed with a 4,500mAh battery.
Vivo has also bundled a 33W fast charger with the phone.
Vivo is steadily growing in emerging markets. The company has been launching new smartphone models across multiple series, targeting different price segments. While the U- and Z-series focus on devices for online users, the V-series,…
HiSilicon’s Loss is Qualcomm’s Gain in High-end Segment
The smartphone application processor market is dominated by Qualcomm. The company maintains its lead in the market by catering to all smartphone segments — from the low-end Snapdragon 200 to mid-end Snapdragon 400 and 600, and the high-end Snapdragon 700 and 800. The lead will increase due to the sanctions on Huawei (HiSilicon), which restrict the Chinese company from using TSMC’s advanced 7nm…
Podcast: Open RAN – Discussing the Potential, Deployment Progress, Opportunities & Challenges
Open Radio Access Networks or Open RAN is slowly gaining momentum in the telecom industry. It promises to be an alternative way of building networks with greater interoperability. Currently, the Radio Access Networks (RAN) market is dominated by Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei, with players such as Samsung growing. And, the technology used is proprietary where software and hardware components are…
Webinar: Emerging Technologies: eSIM for Consumers Brought to You by Airalo
Our Research Analyst, Satyajit Sinha will be speaking at the Airalo Webinar on July 9th 2020 at 2 PM BST. The topic of the webinar is “Emerging Technologies: eSIM for Consumers brought to you by Airalo”.
In the connected world, consumers are looking for seamless global connectivity and eSIM is a key enabler.
eSIM specifically enables remote provisioning, which eliminates the need to install a…
Smartphone CIS Sensors to Top Five Billion Units in 2020 as Quad-Camera Smartphone Designs Ramp Despite COVID-19
In 1Q20, the penetration of quad-camera smartphones reached almost 20% of global smartphone shipments.
OPPO, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Samsung together accounted for 83% of nearly 60 million quad-camera smartphone shipments during Q1.
Realme was the most aggressive adopter of quad-camera designs, with penetration reaching up to two-thirds of its shipments during the quarter.
The trend toward…
Oppo Find X2 Pro: Gorgeous Display and Versatile Cameras, at a Premium
The Oppo Find X2 Pro features a 6.7-inch QHD+ display with a 120Hz refresh rate.
The triple rear camera setup offers 10X hybrid zoom and 60X digital zoom.
Equipped with 5G connectivity, it supports both SA and NSA bands.
Back in 2018, when smartphone designs were getting boring and notched displays were becoming common, Oppo launched the Find X offering an immersive full-screen display. To…
One in Every Three Smartphone Users Will Cut Spending by 10% or More on Their Next Smartphone
One in three respondents to our survey is intending to cut spending by 10% when making their next smartphone purchase, according to our latest Consumer Lens study. The economic activities of all major countries have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. With coronavirus cases surpassing 8 million globally in June 2020 and the new confirmed cases continuing to rise, all major markets saw…
Podcast: Rise of Affordable Premium Smartphones in Korea Signals a Trend Change
The Korean smartphone market is dominated by three major players – Samsung, Apple and LG. Out of the three, Samsung has a majority market share of close to 60%, whereas Apple and LG hover close to 20%. Since 2016, except 2017 (due to Galaxy Note 7 fiasco), the Galaxy S and Note series sales have been more than other devices during the first quarter period. But that changed in Q1 2020, with an…
Four Out of Five Best Selling Models in the Premium Segment Were From Apple
The premium smartphone segment (wholesale price >US$ 400) sell-through declined 13% YoY globally during the first quarter of 2020, according to Counterpoint’s Market Pulse service. The contraction was part of the general smartphone market slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The segment remains key as it contributed close to 57% of total global smartphone revenue during the quarter.
Apple…
Podcast: One in Three Smartphones Sold in the USA in April 2020 Were Online
The COVID-19 outbreak in the US resulted in store closures due to the lockdown and stay-at-home orders. As a result, the US smartphone market was down 21% YoY in Q1 2020. Moving into Q2 2020, the economic downturn and delay in tax refunds slowed down the smartphone sales even further. Nearly 40 million workers in the US applied for unemployment over the past few months. This is a strong base that…
COVID-19 Weighs on European Smartphone Market in Q1 2020
The viral outbreak followed by lockdowns caused the Europe smartphone market to contract by 7% YoY and 23% QoQ
Apple remained resilient while Huawei declined sharply for the quarter – though this was more than COVID-related
New Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, San Diego, London, Buenos Aires - June 3rd, 2020
Smartphone sales declined 7% year-on-year (YoY) and 23% quarter-on-quarter…
realme is the Fastest Growing Smartphone Brand in the South East Asia Market in Q1 2020
realme grew 173% YoY, continued to be in top 5 in the South East Asia smartphone market for Q1 2020
realme was among the top 5 players in the key South East Asia markets of Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.
New Delhi, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, San Diego, London, Buenos Aires – June 1st, 2020
According to the latest research from the Counterpoint…
The Rise of ‘Affordable Premium’ in Korea’s Smartphone Market
Displacement of super-premium devices could be sign of changing consumer needs
We are seeing the rise of the ‘affordable premium’ in Korea, and launches by major brands could see this become a major category in smartphones.
Samsung’s Q1 best-seller in Korea was the A90 5G, which comes equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset and boasts triple cameras. With an ASP of only $453, it…
INFOGRAPHIC: Q1-2020 | MOBILE MARKET MONITOR
Our Q1-2020 Market Monitor report has been published. We release one Infographic in each quarter to summarize the mobile handset market activities in a single page.
Some quick observations from the smartphone market:
Global smartphone shipments declined the fastest ever 13% YoY reaching 294.9 million units in Q1 2020 .
This is the first time since Q1 2014, that the smartphone market…
Microsoft Gets Serious About Telco Cloud With Metaswitch Acquisition
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Affirmed Networks in April, Microsoft last week announced that it was buying UK-based Metaswitch Networks. Metaswitch is a network functions virtualisation (NFV) pioneer founded in 1981 and provides networking software stacks to Tier-1 operators and system vendors around the world. The terms of the deal were not announced.
Trend to Cloud-Native and…
TSMC Caught in the Crossfire as US Renews Focus on Huawei
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The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on 15 May that it plans to protect U.S. national security by restricting Huawei’s ability to use U.S. technology and software to design and manufacture its semiconductors abroad. BIS believes Huawei, and 114 of its overseas-related affiliates, are undermining U.S. export controls. Therefore, BIS is amending its longstanding…
Why new U.S. rules on selling chips to Huawei could be a ‘big blow’ for the Chinese tech giant
For its smartphones, Huawei has a series of processors under the brand name Kirin which goes into almost all of its smartphone models. The problem for Huawei is its huge reliance on TSMC with over 98% of smartphone-related chips manufactured by the Taiwanese firm, according to an estimate by Counterpoint Research.
On top of that, “TSMC is miles ahead of SMIC in terms of leading edge technology…
TCL 10 Pro: A Competitive Android Value Smartphone
The number four smartphone OEM in the US, TCL, has launched a feature-rich smartphone focused on a premium AMOLED display, four rear cameras, and a premium design. Let’s start with it—this premium look and feel smartphone is priced at only $450. One must keep this in mind when inspecting the device, which has taken very few shortcuts. Here are some first impressions:
The smartphone certainly…