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Xiaomi vs Huawei – Who is China’s Smartphone King?

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November 27
by chris eilers

Today Taiwan’s DigiTimes Research agency published a new report about China’s Smartphone Landscape. In this report Huawei, not Xiaomi, is ranked first with a shipment of 14.8 Million Smartphone for Q3 2014.

huawei vs xiaomi

Xiaomi is ranking still very close second with 13.5 Million. Still this report is very controversial to the international reports of IHS iSuppli and IDC. According to the DigiTimes Report Xiaomi is the fifth in global Shipments for Q3 2014 after Samsung, Apple, LG and Huawei.

For the Chinese Local Market in Q3 2014, Lenovo is third with 10.1 Million Units, TCL with 10 Million units, OPPO with 9.8 MIllion UNits, BBK 8Million Units, Coolpad 6.4 Million. Gionee 6.3 Million and ZTE 5.9 Million Units.

Xiaomi 2014 Product Assortment, Beautiful Pic by: Ginie Chin and Aslyy Chin

xiaomi redmi 1S family

All together Chinese manufacturers produced an staggering 111.1 Million Smartphones for Q3 2014, that is an increase of 44.1 compare to the last year according to the Digitimes Research. Nearly 40% of those shipments, 39.2% went to export in oversea markets, which is a 53% increase compared to last year.

Very interesting if you look at the export numbers is how different those strategies are. While companies like TCL exports 93.1 % of their shipments, Huawei 42.6% , Xiaomi only exports 5.4%.

Out of the Top 10 Smartphone Vendors this year, 5 were from China , with Xiaomi leading them with a 200% growth compared to last year. Out of those numbers you can clearly see that the future of smartphones seems to be from China. Already know China’s brands are learning fast that prices AND quality matter and the fans and customers are thankful for that.

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