Huawei Scored Virtual Tie With Samsung for Top Q2 Smartphone Share

Smartphones aren’t sharing in the successful run on COVID-19 connectivity tech tools, as global shipments declined 20.4% to 295 million units in the second quarter, reported Gartner Tuesday. Samsung experienced the largest decline among the top brands, with shipments down 27.1% from the 2019 quarter, said Gartner: "“The COVID-19 pandemic continued to negatively affect Samsung’s performance in the second quarter of 2020. Demand for its flagship S Series smartphones did little to revive its smartphone sales globally.” IPhone sales were down 0.4% year over year, it said. Though Huawei shipments fell nearly 7% from a year earlier, its 27.4% increase sequentially from Q1 pushed it into a virtual tie with Samsung for top share.