Xiaomi tops Chinese market with 14% share

29 April, 2015

Xiaomi has maintained its top position in the Chinese smartphone market in the first quarter. According to a tweet (which cites a report from research firm IHS Technology) sent out by the company's India head, the company sold 14.2 million of the 99 million devices sold in the country in Q1.

Xiaomi sold 14.2M smartphones out of 99M sold in Q1'15 in China, as per IHS. We are #1 :) @xiaomi @MiIndiaOfficial pic.twitter.com/9IWm67WsXE
— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) April 28, 2015

This translates into 14% market share for the five year old company. Huawei and Apple followed with 11% share each, while Samsung and Vivo rounded up the top five with 10 and 9% market share, respectively.

In addition to China, Xiaomi is now heavily focusing on India, where it recently announced its first made for India smartphone, the Mi 4i.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
29 Apr 2015
4$v

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29 Apr 2015
HjB

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Angry Mobile Nerd
29 Apr 2015
tDb

Because that's where the purchasing power is. North America and Europe combined have only about 15% of the world's population but 53% of the world's wealth (and 45% of world GDP). Asia does have the majority of the world's population @ 52% but ...