Huawei delivered 240 million smartphones last year

Huawei says it shipped 240 million smartphones worldwide in 2019. That is 40 million more than a year earlier. The company expects annual turnover to amount to 850 billion Chinese yuan, which is about 109 billion euros.

Huawei mentions the figures in an end-of-year report to its employees. Despite the fact that the Chinese manufacturer became entangled in a political battle last year and as a result can no longer make new smartphones with Google services, the figures were better than last year. The annual turnover is about 18 percent higher than in 2018, but lower than what Huawei had originally expected.

The company emphasizes that next year it will not grow as fast as in the first half of this year. That is because Huawei is still on the Entity List, which means that American companies are not allowed to trade with the Chinese manufacturer. Huawei speaks of “external circumstances” as more complicated than ever and states that the US government will continue to “suppress the development of leading technology”. Huawei calls ‘survival’ its top priority.

It is not clear in which parts of the world Huawei has delivered more or fewer smartphones. The manufacturer does not disclose any details about this. The manufacturer’s most recent top model, the Mate 30, has only been released in Europe to a limited extent due to the lack of Google services.

Huawei calls the further development of its Huawei Mobile Services as the most important spearhead to be able to sell smartphones outside of China. The company aims to go ‘all out’ in 2020 to expand the HMS ecosystem. This year, the manufacturer already announced that it was working on its own map service.