Despite being handcuffed by U.S. restrictions, Huawei phones remain popular in China, and the company had the top model in the first quarter.
Huawei continues to produce very popular phones in China and the Chief Technical Officer of the firm’s Consumer Business Group, Bruce Lee, made that clear in a recent statement. At the Huawei Mobile Innovation Technology Media Communication Conference, Lee said that the Huawei Mate X3 foldable is the top-selling phone in the country while the P60 flagship series is the top-selling line in the 4000 to 6000 yuan price segment ($566 to $849) in China.According to Counterpoint Research via (HuaweiCentral), Huawei’s smartphone shipments for the first quarter rose 41% year-over-year bucking the overall downward trend in the Chinese smartphone market. Smartphone shipments in China declined 8% on an annual basis during the first quarter. Huawei’s domestic market share rose to 9.2% during this period making it the only brand to show such growth during the first quarter of this year.
