Samsung has regained its position as the world's smartphone leader in August and distanced itself from Huawei, with a market share gap of around 6 percentage points between the two sides, according to a new report from market researcher Counterpoint.
This is the largest gap between the two sides in a year, excluding the initial February of Covid-19.
Covid-19 greatly impacted the European, American, and Indian markets in the first half of the year, but the Chinese market has begun to recover, pushing Huawei to overtake Samsung in the second quarter and become the global smartphone leader.
However, under the impact of the US ban, Samsung's global smartphone market share reached 22% in August, regaining the championship. That was followed by Huawei's 16 percent, Apple's 12 percent, and Xiaomi's 11 percent.
Due to Huawei's mobile phone chip supply shortage problem gradually emerged, the industry is expected to further widen the gap with Samsung.
In addition, the recovery of the Indian mobile phone market also helped to promote Samsung's mobile phone market share.
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