According to the latest published report from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, Global smartphone monthly shipments (Sell In), Sales (Sell Through) and Inventory by Vendor: December 2019, global smartphone market is still under a modest recovery phase recent months. In November 2019, both global smartphone shipment and sales volumes posted +2% annual growth rate respectively, followed the +2% annual growth rate by shipments in Q3 2019.

Key factors behind the recovery include seasonality, price adjustments by Apple, 5G rollout and tech innovations, as well as the release of delayed replacement demand etc.

Samsung top both shipment and sales chart this month, followed by Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo by both shipment and sales volume. Lenovo-Motorola, Transsion, LG and Realme are in the top ten list too.

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