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KOMPAS.com – Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 Becomes folding phone (foldable phone) best-selling in the world in the first quarter of 2022 (period January-March 2022).
At least that’s according to the research institute that usually discusses the display market for electronic devices, namely Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).
According to them, the slim foldable phone has a market share of up to 51 percent in the first quarter of 2022.
This figure is higher than Galaxy Z Fold3 which is in second place with a market share of around 21 percent, and the Huawei P50 Pocket with a market share of around 19 percent.
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Furthermore, the DSCC report says that in the first quarter of 2022, this is the third time that the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 has been named the foldable phone with the largest share in the world.
In the third quarter and fourth quarter of 2021, the successor to the Galaxy Z Flip each had a market share of 60 percent and 59 percent, respectively.
But overall, foldable phone shipments in the first quarter of 2022 were claimed to reach 2.22 million units, a drastic increase of up to 517 percent when compared to the same period last year.
However, the shipment figure fell 47 percent from the figure of 4.2 million units when compared to the previous quarter (quarter-IV 2021).
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In the first three months of 2022, Samsung continued to dominate global foldable phone shipments with a 74 percent market share, ahead of Huawei with 20 percent.
Meanwhile, other foldable phone brands such as Oppo, Royole, Vivo, and Xiaomi are claimed not to have a market share of more than 2 percent, as summarized KompasTekno from DSCC, Monday (6/6/2022).
The DSCC report on the foldable phone market in the first quarter of 2022 can be viewed in full via the link the following.
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