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Previous year has been quite rough for Huawei, because of the trade ban put in place by the US Commerce and Trade Department. The ban was placed on the Entity List preventing American companies from doing business with the Chinese tech giant. Despite the troublesome few months, Huawei finished the year 2019 on a high note by achieving an impressive new smartphone sales record which shows that the company managed to withstand the stress test and is ready to push forwaazrd.
Huawei chairman Xu Zhijun revealed that Huawei managed to ship a record hight 240 million smartphones throughout 2019. It shows a 16% increase then 2018, in which Huawei sold over 206 million smartphones. The company achieved these impressive numbers due to the overwhelming success of Huawei's flagship P series and Mate series smartphones that performed exceptionally well in 2019. Though, the largest market for the company remained China last year.
Huawei aimed to sell around 270 million Smartphones in 2019, but US ban and strong competition from other Chinese manufacturers did not let the company achieve those targets. But still, the Chinese smartphone giant performed well over the neutral estimates of 230 million devices, it shipped 10 million more than the calculations. The reason it underperformed is the lack of Google Services in new Huawei smartphones.
The company shipped over 2 million Huawei Watch GT2 units in just three months and over one million Huawei FreeBuds 3 earphone. It even managed to ship 6.9 million 5G phones in 2019 for a record market share surpassing Samsung behind by a big margin. The chairman revealed the aim for the company in 2020 is to develop its Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem as an alternative to the Google so it does not have to rely on foreign partners.
