The top smartphone brand in China is completely unexpected

Huawei was compelled to promote Honor again in November 2020 because of US sanctions, making it an unbiased model within the course of. Now, over a 12 months after Honor gained independence, the corporate has reportedly ascended to the highest of the smartphone market in China.

A Q1 2022 market share report from Canalys confirmed that Honor was the primary model within the nation, transport 15 million items and accounting for 20% of the market. This makes for year-on-year progress of 205%, with Honor solely accounting for five% of the market in Q1 2021. In actual fact, Honor wasn’t even within the prime 5 again then, touchdown at a distant sixth place.

It’s a reasonably stunning flip of occasions on condition that Honor is actually an all-new model on paper. Nonetheless, the agency nonetheless shares some DNA with Huawei when taking a look at just a few gadgets (e.g. the Honor 50 collection). So it’s not fairly ranging from scratch in some methods.

In any other case, Oppo (18%) and Apple (18%) rounded out the rostrum in China. Oppo really declined 34% in comparison with a 12 months in the past whereas Apple achieved 17% yearly progress. So Apple might theoretically threaten Honor’s prime spot if the Cupertino firm can keep momentum and if Honor shipments gradual dramatically.

Vivo (16%) and Xiaomi (14%) rounded out the highest 5. These manufacturers noticed yearly declines of 44% and 22% respectively. In different phrases, Honor and Apple have been the one manufacturers within the prime 5 to see yearly progress.