Huawei Ships 100 Million Smartphones on Global, Premium Push
- China's slowing smartphone market has hampered Xiaomi, Lenovo
- Telecoms giant remains a distant third to Apple and Samsung
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Huawei Technologies Co. shipped more than 100 million smartphones this year as a drive to attract higher-end customers helped defy an industry slowdown that hit rival Chinese vendors.
China’s largest mobile brand boosted shipments by 33 percent and moved into the top three globally, the Shenzhen-based company said in a statement on its website. Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are the world’s two biggest producers.