{"id":297084,"date":"2019-02-04T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=297084"},"modified":"2019-02-04T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:28:18","slug":"these-are-the-3-most-popular-smartphone-brands-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/297084\/these-are-the-3-most-popular-smartphone-brands-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 3 most popular smartphone brands in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent poll conducted by BusinessTech shows that South Africans have clear favourites when it comes to smartphone brands.<\/p>\n

The poll – which was conducted at the end of January 2019 – asked 8,885 people which mobile brand they currently used.<\/p>\n

36% (3,160) of respondents said that they currently use a Samsung, followed closely by Huawei with 28% (2,521) and Apple with 19% (1,652).<\/p>\n

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This data dovetails with the most recent data released by Counterpoint<\/a><\/strong>, which found that Samsung, Apple and Huawei were the three best-selling smartphone brands in the world.<\/p>\n

However, both Samsung (-6% YoY growth) and Apple (-15% YoY growth) ceded significant ground to Huawei which saw growth of 46% YoY.<\/p>\n

Counterpoint expects this growth to continue for the Chinese manufacturer as it continues to focus in markets outside of China.<\/p>\n

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Huawei in SA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huawei has already made a big splash in the South African market, with the company stating that it had officially overtaken Apple in market share in 2017.<\/p>\n

Speaking to MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Huawei South Africa CTO Akhram Mohamed said that the company was now\u00a0setting its sights on the top position across all pricing segments in the local market.<\/p>\n

Mohamed said the strong performance of Huawei\u2019s smartphones across the board could result in the company reaching this goal by the end of 2019 or 2020.<\/p>\n

“In 2018, Huawei was either number one or number two in every pricing segment,” Mohamed told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

“And where we are number two, the gap is so small that we think we could break through very quickly.”<\/p>\n

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Read: These are the best-selling smartphone brands in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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