Huawei surpasses Apple to be second largest smartphone brand despite US ban: Report
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China’s top telecom company Huawei surpassed Apple Inc to become the second-largest smartphone brand globally in 2019 despite the sanctions put over it by US. The report was released after a study by Hong Kong-based analytics firm Counterpoint Research. The company shipped 238.5 million handsets in 2019 and was only second to another telecom-giant Samsung that sold 296.5 million units. Apple dropped to the third spot.