Samsung fails to ship 300 million phones for the first time in 9 years

Samsung has been the number one mobile phone brand globally since 2012, and it has been shipping close to 300 million phones every year since 2011. However, it won’t be able to reach the 300-million mark this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, related shutdowns, and the market conditions. And this would be the first time in nine years that the company won’t reach that figure. By the end of Q3 2020, Samsung shipped 189 million mobile phones. That...

Exynos’ market share slipped in Q3 2020 even as Samsung supplied chips to Vivo

Samsung is not particularly known for its Exynos processors, but it was still among the top three brands last year due to the sheer number of Galaxy devices it shipped with its in-house chipsets. However, the company’s market share seems to have slipped a bit in the third quarter of this year. According to the latest numbers from Counterpoint Research, Samsung’s market share dropped from 16% in Q3...