Xiaomi China Phone Shipments Fall 38% as Huawei Takes Lead
- Apple in fifth place as local vendors fill top 4 positions
- Vivo shipments surge by 75 percent, OPPO more than doubles
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Xiaomi Corp., the once-hot Chinese smartphone maker, saw shipments tumble 38 percent in China in the second quarter as Huawei Technologies Co. took over the top spot in the world’s largest market, according to research from International Data Corp.
Xiaomi shipped 10.5 million smartphones in the quarter, down from 17.1 million in the same period a year earlier. That made the company the fourth-largest competitor in the market behind Huawei, OPPO and Vivo, according to IDC.