Chinese smartphone brand Honor surpassed Samsung Electronics to become the No 1 foldable-handset maker in western Europe, according to data from industry consultancy Counterpoint Research.
Honor – a spin-off from Huawei Technologies – took that crown for the first time in the second quarter. Western Europe is the second-largest foldable handset market after China and a fierce battleground for players including Motorola, Oppo, OnePlus and Google, according to a new Counterpoint report.
Honor, which launched its popular book-style Magic V2 outside China last September, saw its global foldable shipments grow 455 per cent in the second quarter, the largest year-on-year rise among all brands, the report showed.
Globally, Honor’s crosstown rival Huawei remained the largest foldable-handset brand for the second consecutive quarter based on strong performance in the China market, according to another report by Counterpoint.