{"id":830518,"date":"2026-07-29T04:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830518\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:40:32","slug":"huawei-continues-to-rock-h1-2026-chinas-smartphone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830518\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei continues to rock H1 2026 China&#8217;s smartphone market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huaweicentral.com\/huawei-and-apple-reaping-benefits-from-memory-chip-trouble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">memory chips<\/a> has affected every other smartphone maker, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huaweicentral.com\/huawei-to-boost-smartphone-shipments-by-20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huawei<\/a> continued to lead the sales market in China for H1 2026. The OEM stands at the top with a 20.6% market share, while Apple and other Chinese brands are following it.<\/p>\n<p>RBObservation on Weibo recently <a href=\"https:\/\/m.weibo.cn\/detail\/5324858579485278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a> the ranking of the top six brands in China\u2019s smartphone market in H1 2026, where Huawei is leading as it holds the highest market share among its competitors \u2013 20.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei has maintained a strong price strategy in the first half of this year. An overview shows that it launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huaweicentral.com\/huawei-making-real-5g-comeback-in-global-market-with-pura-90s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pura 90<\/a> flagship and other products without increasing the cost tag. This move caught attention amid rising memory costs.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, devices like Enjoy 90 Pro Max and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huaweicentral.com\/huawei-mate-80-gains-8-million-sales-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mate 80 series<\/a> have benefited Huawei the most. Both handsets are selling extremely well, holding the top spots.<\/p>\n<p>Other rankers:<\/p>\n<p>Apple ranked second with a 17.5% market share. Just like Huawei, the iPhone maker retained the same price without any adjustments. The iPhone 17 series became a spotlight for the company with significant price slashes at the 618 shopping festival.<\/p>\n<p>The third rank goes to OPPO with a market share of 16.2%, including 2.9% of OnePlus\u2019 share and 1.0% of realme. Vivo appears at the fourth position with 15.6% of the market share, while its sub-brand iQOO accounts for 4.3% of the market share.<\/p>\n<p>Following the report, a netizen mentioned that among many sub-brands, the iQOO phones were indeed good this year, as it has sold sufficient units in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi gets the fifth rank with a market share of 14.3%. Honor achieves the sixth place with an 11.8% share in the Chinese smartphone sales competition for H1 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Memory prices continue to increase, and it would be worth seeing if the sales market ranking remains the same or gets disturbed in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152344\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chinas-smartphone-market-1H26.jpg\" alt=\"H1 2026 China's smartphone market report\" width=\"1200\" height=\"789\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-152344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image Credits: Weibo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rise in memory chips has affected every other smartphone maker, though Huawei continued to lead the sales&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-830518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}