Huawei. The Chinese company announced a record increase in smartphone sales globally, and this also brought a record increase in revenue that it generated thanks to their success. According to those from Huawei, the receipts of the division that sells smartphones, among other things, increased by 50% to 52 billion dollars, and amounts to half of the total receipts generated by the company during 2018 worldwide.
Huawei. In 2018, the Chinese had revenues of 109 billion dollars for the entire group, up 21% compared to 2017, and this positive development was mainly based on the popularity of smartphones. Those from Huawei sold a little over 200 million units during 2018, a significant increase compared to 2017, managing to surpass even Apple in global sales, a trend that will certainly continue in 2019.
Huawei is setting records thanks to the popularity of smartphones
Huawei. Despite the fact that it was dragged into many scandals, and accused of many serious problems with its products, in the end the company had a lot of success during 2018. The truth is that Huawei also benefited from a lot free advertising thanks to all these scandals, so maybe to a certain extent an increase in the sales of certain products is explained, but it remains to be seen what will happen from now on.
China's Huawei Technologies said on Thursday its consumer business sales exceeded a record $52 billion in 2018, on strong demand for its premium smartphones. The jump of around 50 percent in the technology giant's consumer business revenue saw that unit replace its carrier business as its largest segment by sales. Huawei last month flagged that total revenue in 2018 rose 21 percent to $109 billion without providing a breakdown of segment performance.
Huawei. The Chinese have set as their objective the competition from Samsung in smartphone sales, and if things will continue the same for them, then there are very high chances to rise to the first place in the top smartphone manufacturers. Of course, this depends to a great extent on the new phone models that Huawei will launch in the coming months, but from the information that has appeared so far, it seems that they will be as amazing as the world expects.
