Last week Canalys released its 2024 smartphone shipment numbers<\/a> for China, and today Counterpoint Research (CR) has done the same. The numbers are quite different, though.<\/p>\n While vivo led with a 17.8% market share for the year, and Huawei was in second place with 16.3%, the third place in CR’s report is occupied by Xiaomi with 15.7% of the pie, not Apple. Apple is fourth with 15.5%, followed by Honor with 15% and Oppo with 14.3%.<\/p>\n Xiaomi wasn’t even in Canalys’ Top 5, so we’re not sure what’s going on here. Either way, vivo led in shipments for the full year – that’s pretty much a given at this point. Also, Huawei was in second place and even the percentages of the pie are similar.<\/p>\n According to CR, Huawei grew the most compared to 2023 at 36.4%, followed by Xiaomi with 10.2% and vivo with 7%. All the other brands shipped less units than in 2023, with Apple falling the hardest (12.6%), followed by Oppo (10.4%) and Honor (2.8%).<\/p>\n If we look at just Q4 (October to December), CR says Huawei took the lead with 18.1%, followed by Xiaomi with 17.2%, Apple with 17.1%, vivo with 16.3%, Honor with 13.6%, and Oppo with 12.5%.<\/p>\n In Q4, compared to Q4 of 2023, Huawei grew the most (15.5%), followed by vivo (8%) and Xiaomi (3.9%), while Apple lost the most (18.2%), followed by Honor (12.8%) and Oppo (9.3%).<\/p>\n![\"CR:](\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/25\/01\/counterpoint-reasearch-chinese-market-2024\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\")
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