Huawei Faces Smartphone Hurdles, Says ABI
Huawei faces headwinds in its aim to become the top global smartphone vendor in five years, said a Monday ABI Research report. The Chinese smartphone maker rose to the No. 3 global smartphone maker primarily on sales in its home…
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market, but it will need to get a strong foothold in the U.S. and Western Europe to achieve its goal, while creating its own chipsets and Android-based mobile operating system, ABI said. It was helped by the “ongoing collapse” of shipment numbers from brands including BlackBerry, HTC, Sony and Microsoft Lumia, said analyst David McQueen. Android smartphone makers like Samsung tried to develop competing OS platforms and “failed miserably,” he said.