The US sanctions on Huawei are really taking hold now. A new report from Canalys Research shows Huawei dropping all the way down to sixth place for worldwide phone sales in Q4 2020, a dramatic drop from its first-place perch earlier in the year. In Canalys’ current market share table, Huawei has been banished to the “other” category.
Being stuck in “other” means there’s no clear year-over-year drop listed in Canalys’ data, but it does mention Huawei sold 32 million phones in Q2 2020. We can look at last year’s Q4 2019 report, where Huawei sold 56 million units, and come up with a year-over-year drop of 42 percent. Every other Chinese vendor in Canalys’ chart saw big double-digit gains in place of Huawei, with Xiaomi being the big winner at 31 percent year-over-year growth. Huawei is now behind Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo.
