The market research company Canalys has unveiled a new report on the number of smartphones shipped to the United States during the second quarter of 2020. It logically looked at the case of Apple, which would have beaten a new record with iPhones.
According to Canalys, Apple shipped more than 15 million iPhones in the United States between April and June. In comparison, this figure increased by 10% compared to the same period last year. The report states that it isl’iPhone 11which sold the best during the period, up to 15% more than the iPhone XR last year - the Apple brand's best-selling phone of 2019.The iPhone SE revealed in April 2020also sold well.
Recovery in smartphone sales compared to the first quarter of 2020
More generally, smartphone sales fell from 33.4 million units in the second quarter of 2019 to 31.9 million units in the second quarter of 2020, a drop of 10%. Despite everything, shipments marked an increase compared to the first quarter of the current year, which can be explained by the resumption of production in China.
70% of smartphones shipped to the USA were manufactured in China, a percentage which was 60% in the first quarter of 2020.
Vincent Thielke, analyst at Canalys, said about smartphone sales this quarter: “As the coronavirus pandemic forced consumers to stay home, 5G adoption in the United States failed to take off. Store closures and virus fears have limited interaction with demo models, consumers' tight budgets have further reduced their purchasing power, and with poor 5G network coverage in America's suburbs, consumers have seen many reasons to buy a 4G device instead. Despite weak 5G deployment so far, vigorous operator marketing in the coming quarters will be instrumental in catalyzing a multi-year transition period from LTE to 5G».
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