HTC is dead and Samsung is king: Smartphone manufacturers that won and lost 2019

With the curtain falling on 2019 it’s time to dissect the year that was and pick some winners and losers of 2019. Counting up the glorious wins, only one phone maker can take the title, but there are plenty of runners up this year. Some manufacturers just nailed it, while others had more mixed fortunes; some stumbled and faltered into a year to forget. Weighing up the releases, the sales, the strategic moves — this is how the top smartphone manufacturers ended up in 2019. Winner in 2019: Samsung Amid an industry decline in smartphone sales Samsung managed to increase its lead as the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world in 2019. The flagship S10 range kicked off the year, and Samsung set out its stall with four variants — the Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, the more affordable S10e, and Samsung’s first 5G phone, the S10 5G. This was a good indication of the strategy Samsung would take for 2019, aiming to hit every possible consumer segment with a phone that would tempt most of them. Alongside its first 5G phone Samsung generated some serious buzz as the first major manufacturer to release a folding phone in the shape… Read full this story

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