Q2 2021: Apple Achieves Record June Quarter Shipments, Xiaomi Becomes the Second-Largest Smartphone Brand Globally
Global smartphone market grew 19% YoY but declined by 7% QoQ as 329 million units were shipped, led by Samsung. Xiaomi eclipses 50 million…
Global PC Shipments up 45% YoY in Q1 2021; Chip Shortage Impact to Continue in H2 2021
Global PC shipments grew 45% YoY in Q1 2021 on solid demand and a low base in the same period in 2020 due to COVID-19. Shortages of key IC…
Pandemic Push: Tablet Shipments up 53% YoY in Q1 2021
Boston, Toronto, London, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - June 14, 2021 The global tablet market saw a big revival during the pandemic,…
Apple Shipped Record iPhones in Q4 2020, Global Smartphone Market Continues to Recover
• The global smartphone market continued to recover in Q4 2020, rebounding 8% QoQ to 395.9 million units. • Apple’s 8% YoY and 96% QoQ growth helped…
Global Demand for Laptops Gets Pandemic Push
The surge in work-from-home and study-from-home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has meant good news for the laptop market. Counterpoint expects that the…
IFA2019 – Mid-Range Smartphones Get Some Much-Needed Attention
In the smartphone market, a lot of emphasis is given to flagship products – they are the ones that tend to receive the first release of new…
Run-up to CES 2017
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gets under way on 5th of January. We have a team of analysts present at the event meeting with tech companies…
Market Monitor : Q1 2015 : Smartphone Brands Market Share By US Carriers
According to latest research from Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market crossed 40 million units at the end…
Market Monitor : Q1 2015 : Handset & Smartphones India
According to the latest research from Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service, for Q1 2015 (Jan-March), the overall India mobile phone market…
Snapshot of the smartphone market in May 2014
Every month we track the smartphone market across 35 countries from the supply chain to the retail POS and consumers to create accurate data and…
MWC 2014: An Event it was
MWC 2014 Overview This year's Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, provided the industry with the next iteration of smart, cheap and…
The Big Acquisition: Lenovo acquires Motorola
The Big Acquisition: The world’s leading PC manufacturer Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility from Google for ~ USD 2.91 Billion. With this deal, Lenovo…