When a report comes out detailing the performance of the top 3 manufacturers in China and Samsung isn’t one of them, you really take notice. In Strategy Analytics’ latest report about China’s smartphone market in Q1 2015, Xiaomi topped the board with 14 million smartphones shipped, Apple came in second with 13.5 million and Huawei came in third with 11.2 million units moved. Samsung isn’t even mentioned in the report but we’re willing to bet Samsung is just slightly behind in fourth place.
While it doesn’t seem like much, this is a big change for the Korean manufacturer who once had a huge stake in the Chinese market. No doubt these numbers and rankings do not yet take into account the start of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge sales last month, however Samsung has a lot of ground to make up if it intends to move up in the world’s biggest market for smartphones.
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Source: Strategy Analytics via SamMobile
