According to Canalys' report, the global smartphone market is down during 2019. The figure reached 2 percent, ie 1.37 billion units. Previously, global mobile phone shipments were able to penetrate 1.41 billion units in 2018 and 1.4 billion units in 2017.
Reporting from the official website of Canalys, Wednesday (3/4/2020) the smartphone market grew in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2019, but unfortunately it could not boost the overall total market in the year. The growth is only 1 percent with a total shipment of 396 million units.
In 2019, Samsung still leads the mobile market with a market share of 21.8 percent. The South Korean company managed to ship 298.1 million units of mobile phones during 2019. Huawei came in second with 17.6 percent, followed by Apple 14.5 percent of the global smartphone market in 2019.
As a result of the corona virus (COVID-19) which is endemic in several countries, the smartphone market will decline in the 1st quarter (Q1) 2020. Whereas previously it was predicted to rise before there was an outbreak. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts a decline in the smartphone market for the first half of this year. The figure reached 10.6 percent.
The corona virus outbreak has had an impact on the smartphone industry. Mobile phone manufacturers are experiencing shortages in supply chains and logistics have been disrupted because several production factories were shut down.
