(Photo: REUTERS / Elijah Nouvelage) Sundar Pinchai, Google's senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps, speaks during his keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, June 25, 2014
The mobile device market has seen an overall decline in the second quarter of the current year, but Samsung has recently confirmed a more drastic drop. .ads_rectangle_img_content_left background-color: FFFFFF;font-size: 1px;line-height: 1px;margin: 0;padding: 0;content left_toolwidth:300px !important;content left_tool_1display: inline;float: left;margin-right: 15px;width:180px !important; View Full Image REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji A sales assistant holding Samsung Electronics' Galaxy 5 smartphone (L) and Apple Inc's iPhone 5 smartphone (R) poses for photographs at a store in Seoul July 16, 2014. Chinese smartphone manufacturers are making waves in the smartphone industry as they start producing units as powerful as the ones offered by major brands like Apple and Samsung, but for less than what the major brands cost. Huawei, for example, has seen its market share rise from 4.3% last year to 6.9% this year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.IDC&039;s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Huawei&039;s 6.9% market share places them as the third largest manufacturer in the world today, surpassing Lenovo and LG. Lenovo has reported a "record quarter" in China, and reports shipments outside of China tripled since the second quarter of 2013. Huawei, Lenovo, and Xiaomi are expected to become the main competitors of Samsung soon.Oversaturation of Smartphone ManufacturersHuawei&039;s head of consumer business group Richard Yu says it accurately in his interview with The Wall Street Journal: "There are too many smartphone makers in the market... The whole industry is consolidating and some global vendors are disappearing." Over the past few years the world has seen some smartphone manufacturers consolidate, with major players Samsung, Apple, and LG surviving, and Motorola currently in the middle of being acquired by Lenovo.Just how saturated is the smartphone market? IDC reveals that the five major players today - Samsung, Apple, Huawei,Nike Flyknit Trainer Mens, Lenovo, and LG in that order - only hold 54.2% of the total market share. The rest of the smartphone manufacturers, simply labeled as "Others," hold the remaining 45.8%.Longer Replacement CycleAccording to a report from PCWorld, Samsung stated they expected their sales to be sluggish because of their longer replacement cycle. Samsung told PCWorld that "higher shipments of 50to-6 inch large screen smartphones replaced demand for 7-to-8 inches." In comparison,Australia Nike Shoes, its main competitor,Nike Free 4.0 Dark Grey Green, Apple, updates their flagship devices at almost the same time every year.Samsung to Maintain their Credit Rating Despite DeclineDespite their market share and profit decline, Samsung is said to maintain their current credit rating, according to global credit rating company Fitch Ratings. The company said that while they expect the global smartphone market to increase by 20% next year, Samsung&039;s market share will continue to drop to 25% next year. Despite that, they said, Samsung will maintain its credit rating of A+, with Samsung and Apple sales predicted to stay steady at 450-460 million phones. To contact the editor, : Close (Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji / ) A sales assistant holding Samsung Electronics' Galaxy 5 smartphone (L) and Apple Inc's iPhone 5 smartphone (R) poses for photographs at a store in Seoul July 16,Nike Air Max 2011 Grey Black Orange AU, 2014.
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