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2020 US Smartphone Shipments Up 9% Y/Y
Despite global’ smartphone shipments being down 7.6% in 2020, to 1.427m, the US eked out a growth of 8.6%, even as the strong Q420 was down 5% Y/Y. Apple with its new iPhone 12 series was up 14% Y/Y and 50.6% sequentially. Samsung was up 5% Y/Y and 9.4% sequentially. The losers were every other OEM, LG down 5%, Nokia down 44%, Lenovo (Motorola) down 69%. Overall, the “other” category was down 50.9% Y/Y and 32.6% sequentially.
Table 1: US Q420 Smartphone Shipments, Share Growth by OEM
Despite global’ smartphone shipments being down 7.6% in 2020, to 1.427m, the US eked out a growth of 8.6%, even as the strong Q420 was down 5% Y/Y. Apple with its new iPhone 12 series was up 14% Y/Y and 50.6% sequentially. Samsung was up 5% Y/Y and 9.4% sequentially. The losers were every other OEM, LG down 5%, Nokia down 44%, Lenovo (Motorola) down 69%. Overall, the “other” category was down 50.9% Y/Y and 32.6% sequentially.
Table 1: US Q420 Smartphone Shipments, Share Growth by OEM
Table 2: US 2020 Smartphone Shipments, Share Growth by OEM
Figure 1: US Q420 OEM Smartphone’ Shipments (Y/Y) Growth
