Without any surprises, Huawei (including Honor) led China's smartphone market with a total sales volume of 119.17 million units, followed by Oppo (76.37 million units), Vivo (74.64 million units), Apple (52.7 million units), and Xiaomi (47.96 million units). Half of the top 8 smartphone vendors suffered a decline in sales volume. The sum of the top 5 vendors' sale volume was 94.83% of the total.
78.27% of smartphones were sold through offline channels. Oppo led the offline market with 73.07 million units devices being sold, which ranked seventh in online channel with a sales volume of just 3.3 million units. In contrast, Honor topped the online channel by selling 23.72 million units devices online, which dropped to fifth place in the offline channel with a sales volume of 30.56 million units.
In terms of sales value, Apple seized back the leading position by generating 300.45 billion yuan (US$44.51bn) in sales. Huawei (including Honor) ranked second with a sales valu...
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