Two large Russian mobile operators shared data on which smartphones of which brands their subscribers mainly use. As it turned out, the South Korean Samsung is leading.
On the ranking of smartphone brands in terms of mobile operators reported “Vedomosti”. The MTS publication said that in the 1st quarter of 2020, 20% of active SIM card operators in the network worked on Samsung devices. In second place with 14% is the Huawei-owned Honor brand. Finally, Apple closes the top three with 11.1%.
Samsung has been leading the operator’s network since 2014, a MTS representative said, and the iPhone reached a peak in popularity in 2020 – so many Apple smartphones have never been before. Moreover, it was the Apple gadget that became the most popular in the ranking of individual models – 3% of MTS subscribers use iPhone 7. It is followed by Honor 10 Lite and Samsung Galaxy A50.
Closing the top five most popular smartphone brands Xiaomi with 11% and Nokia with 6.5%. Currently, 75.1% of MTS subscribers have acquired a smartphone, the rest of the SIM cards are used in push-button phones, tablets and other devices. The dynamics of the popularity of various brands since 2008 was clearly shown in the video:
MegaFon data provides a similar picture: Samsung in the network of this operator is preferred by 25% of users (the indicator is higher than that of MTS, since it takes into account not only smartphones, but also tablets and push-button phones). Huawei and Honor devices account for 16%, Apple 13%, Xiaomi Xiaomi 12% and Nokia 9%. Beeline and Tele2 have not yet provided similar information to the publication.
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