Huawei sold more than 109 million phones in 2015

These days we have been a bit surprised by Xiaomi's "apparent sadness" when not being able to reach those 80 million smartphones sold around the world to stay at the figure of 70 million. Few mobiles are quite ironic in tone, but for one of the companies that has stormed the Android market in a fabulous way it seems that they know little. Possibly not having projected internationally with headquarters in certain important countries is holding them back from even beating the initial goal that they set in the first months of 2015 in which they expected to reach 100 million smartphones. A figure, by the way, that has been surpassed by Huawei, one of its direct rivals.

And it is that Huawei, in 2015 became the third largest phone manufacturer on the planet with a year in which it has confirmed the good steps taken in previous years. A great success for this company that announced in December that it sold 100 million smartphones all over the planet, and that without ending a month in which Christmas shopping would be at its peak. So curiosity jumped us to want to know how many terminals have been distributed around the face of the earth. Thanks to a well-known analyst we now have that information.

More than 109 million smartphones in 2015

Kevin Wang, a market analyst based in China, has shared some information on his Weibo profile where he states that Huawei distributed more than 40 percent of its smartphones abroad from China, which in itself is quite surprising and leads us directly to being a company that is reaffirming itself in its most international aspect. An excellent percentage that many would not think they could reach even if they already have their feet very well planted in certain very important countries in the smartphone market.

Here is clearly the difference with Xiaomi, which is well tied to her own country and in which the Chinese market competition is very tough and has a quality that is very difficult to fight, the saturation of all types of smartphones.

Wang claims that Huawei sold 109 million terminals in 2015, a huge increase compared to the 63 million it shipped in 2014. This means that the Huawei's growth rate has been 45% in just one year, simply spectacular.

Global expansion

If we consider that Xiaomi, its main competitor, has sold 70 million terminals in 2015, and 61 in 2014, we once again emphasize the differences between the two manufacturers. One already established in a global market and another one more located in its own country and other Asian markets. Xiaomi, of those 70 million terminals sold, 63 went to fall into the hands of the people of China.

Now we are facing a year 2016 where Huawei, wants to embark on the epic adventure to enter the US market, and to Xiaomi, which also wants to hit the target by also entering this market, but which, for sure, it will be difficult for both of them even if they have joint scandalous figures in these last two years that they have truly become one of the biggest players in the Android market.

Huawei has its four variants of the Huawei P9 and Xiaomi has already put the cards on the table with a Xiaomi Redmire 3 and a Mi 5 that is about to fall for the month of February. The rest of the film we will get to know her As the months go by and we meet again in 2017 where we can say who has really done better, although something gives me that both will continue on a good course and at full speed.

What leaves us curious is what would have happened if Xiaomi had the international reach that Huawei has right now. Its terminals are on everyone's lips and if you had the option of being able to access good technical support, as is the case with Huawei, it would surely have passed that figure of 100 million. The next question is who would it have reached, if Huawei, Samsung or Apple.