Huawei, a Chinese company behind the US smartphone maker company Apple, has been behind the smartphone market. Huawei now slipped to Apple in second place. South Korean company Samsung is still the top smartphone market
Technological website Pocket Now said in a report that Huawei released 20 billion smartphones in the year 2018. The top smartphones sold by them are Huawei P20, Honor 10 and Mate 20 series. The company released 15 million 30 million units in the market in the year 2017.
This year Samsung has brought 30 million units of smartphones to the market. Apple is ahead of Huawei in the first quarter of this year, but the Chinese company has surpassed Apple as a whole year.
In the third quarter of the year, Apple's share was 13 percent of the smartphone market and Huawei's market share was 14.6 percent.
Huawei's chief executive Richard Yew announced the sale of 20 million units of phone by December after bringing 100 million units of phone in July this year. Hu gang of Huawei's Smartphone division said that the target can be achieved even by December 25.
Huawei officials say Huawei's smartphone sales have increased greatly for years. So the profits from the smartphone division are almost catching Huawei's telecom equipment business.
Huawei plans to top the smartphone market by the end of 2019
