{"id":310522,"date":"2019-04-11T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=310522"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:17:52","slug":"huawei-expects-impressive-p30-pro-sales-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/310522\/huawei-expects-impressive-p30-pro-sales-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei expects impressive P30 Pro sales in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has released its first-week sales figures for the Huawei P30 Pro, with the device set to become the company&#8217;s most popular smartphone in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After just five days, sales of the Huawei P30 Pro showed a 244% increase when compared to the number of Huawei P20 Pro devices sold during its launch week in mid-2018,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sales of the Huawei P30 show a 44% increase on the number of Huawei P20 smartphones sold during its first week of sales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huawei has quickly become a major player in South Africa and has launched smartphones across a multitude of pricing ranges, from the\u00a0budget-oriented Y series\u00a0to its premium\u00a0Mate series.<\/p>\n<p>The company has rapidly caught up with Apple and Samsung,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/270741-huawei-is-beating-apple-in-south-africa-and-is-gaining-on-other-competitors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>overtaking the former<\/strong><\/a> in terms of overall market share last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/294132-we-will-dominate-the-entire-south-african-smartphone-market-huawei.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> in February, Huawei South Africa CTO Akhram Mohamed said that the company was now setting its sights on the top position across all pricing segments in the local market.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\u201cIn 2018, Huawei was either number one or number two in every pricing segment,\u201d Mohamed told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd where we are number two, the gap is so small that we think we could break through very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/309034\/mtn-launches-new-huawei-p30-p30-lite-and-p30-pro-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTN launches new Huawei P30, P30 Lite and P30 Pro deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has released its first-week sales figures for the Huawei P30 Pro, with the device set to become the company&#8217;s most popular smartphone in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":293794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,1635],"class_list":["post-310522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-huawei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310530,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310522\/revisions\/310530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}