{"id":798177,"date":"2021-03-17T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/03\/17\/global-smartphone-shipments-to-reach-1-38-billion-units-in-2021-report\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:17:43","slug":"global-smartphone-shipments-to-reach-1-38-billion-units-in-2021-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/03\/17\/global-smartphone-shipments-to-reach-1-38-billion-units-in-2021-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global smartphone shipments to reach 1.38 billion units in 2021: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global smartphone shipments are forecasted to rebound by 6.5% on-year to reach 1.38 billion units in 2021 as the economic situation improves with the weakening COVID-19 pandemic and supply-side push of 5G devices, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2021 is going to be the year of Chinese smartphone vendors. In the Asia Pacific, Vivo, Xiaomi and Oppo will become top 3 players driven by aggressive marketing, expanding channel footprints and competitive pricing,&#8221; said Linda Sui, Senior Director at Strategy Analytics. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 2021, we believe Xiaomi will emerge as the third-largest global smartphone vendor surpassing Huawei. Xiaomi has been performing well in the India and Russia markets, and has also been very aggressive in Central &#038; Eastern Europe and Western Europe,\u201d said Abhilash Kumar, Smartphone Analyst at Strategy Analytics. <\/p>\n<p>The agency said Transsion will dominate Samsung to become the top smartphone maker in Africa and the Middle East market, while Xiaomi will overtake Apple to become the third-largest vendor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Western European markets, Xiaomi will solidify its grip on third place after Apple and Samsung,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global smartphone shipments are forecasted to rebound by 6.5% on-year to reach 1.38 billion units in 2021 as the economic situation improves with the weakening COVID-19 pandemic and supply-side push of 5G devices, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. &#8220;2021 is going to be the year of Chinese smartphone vendors. In the Asia Pacific, Vivo, Xiaomi and Oppo will become top 3 players driven by aggressive marketing, expanding channel footprints and competitive pricing,&#8221; said Linda Sui, Senior Director at Strategy Analytics. &#8220;For 2021, we believe Xiaomi will emerge as the third-largest global smartphone vendor surpassing Huawei. Xiaomi has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}