According to the latest country-wise smartphone OEM tracking report published by our Country Share Tracker (CST), Huawei has become more neck to neck with Samsung in many of key countries as well as global competition during Q1 2019.

In some of key European countries including Italy, Spain and Russia, competition between two Android OEM's was very intense and close where Samsung still took the no. 1 position, with Huawei closely narrowing the gap. The key to this battle during the ongoing Q2 2019 would be who would be able to win more consumer's sentiments with their mass market smartphones, reshuffled A series from Samsung and Honor / Nova series from Huawei.

The in-detail vendor shipments and market share in key countries can be viewed here.