Despite new foldables including the Mate X2 and the P50 Pocket, Huawei's 2021 handset shipments declined over 81% last year.
managed to finish as the third-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Including its then sub-unit Honor, the company shipped 188.5 million smartphones worldwide for the year. That put the company behind Apple and Samsung .and below Samsung. The latter two delivered 198.1 million and 298 million handsets respectively. In the middle of that year, the U.S., citing security, placed Huawei on the entity list preventing the manufacturer from accessing its U.S.
This left Huawei without access to the Google Mobile Services' version of Android and unable to include Google apps like Search, Maps, the Play Store, and others. That didn't matter much in China since most , the U.S. changed its export rules to prevent foundries that manufacture chips using American technology from shipping cutting-edge semiconductors to Huawei. As a result, the company was unable to receive deliveries of its own Kirin 9000 5G chipsets and was forced to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 to power its P50 and P50 Pro flagship models last year.
Samsung saw its lead over Apple decline last year as Samsung's 5.9% year-over-year increase in shipments to 271.5 million phones paled in comparison to the 15.6% annual gain rung up by Apple in 2021. 236.2 million iPhone handsets were delivered last year cutting Samsung's lead to 35.3 million units, down from the 51.9 million lead it held in 2020.
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