Huawei could become world's number one smartphone vendor next year

Yep, the Chinese are coming back. Personally I wouldn’t buy a Huawei phone ever but there are a a lot of people who would obviously. While Samsung is busy fighting Apple in one corner Huawei is snatching their customers all around.

And phonearena will finally celebrate Samsung's 'fall' (even tho it won't be one).

Their phones give more bang for the buck. They have better update policy than many other OEMs. They are getting more innovative with their phones.

Let the best man win, will buy any smartphone that I deem better then the one I'm holding now , competition is nessecery to better and better phones.

Samsung will be in panic mode. That’s what they get from trashing  with their stupid ads and marketing. They have to fight against android OEMs not .

I hear the Chinese government pays a subsidy to Huawei each time they sell a phone (big reason they can afford to sell much cheaper). State sponsored companies.

The only thing that comes to my mind is that Huawei is starting to become the old Samsung that existed years ago, they are so desperate in becoming the world's first for everything that they always tend to overlook how useless or useful a feature can or can't be to a consumer,Samsung used to do that tirelessly many years back and that didn't work out all that well for them with most of their features being nothing more than mere gimmicks to impress the press(no pun intended). What I've learnt is that it's best to wait for a feature to grow and mature/improve well enough before it is implemented,not the other way around,triple cameras and optical in display fingerprint sensors are great,if you're so obsessed with being the world's first to implement them like most Chinese phone makers are doing these days while completely ignoring the fact that you can r&d the feature in house relentlessly and wait till the feature is perfected before throwing it in the "recipe",paying millions just to slap the emblem of a camera company on your phone and add triple lenses that could've been better had more development been put into them isn't gonna work in your favour and don't even try coming at me with dxomark scores because i know the amount of trust dxomark lost after the oneplus camera score fiasco,the p20 pro is great at capturing night shots and that's it and I've owned the phone since it was released so i know how the camera performs. Don't be obsessed with being the first to do something,watch what your competitors do and how they do it while you work as best as you can to come up with a better and more improved version of that feature and then you can laugh at them after implementing a much better version of the feature they have and don't rush to add innovations that can be considered as gimmicks instead of complete and useful features that will eventually backfire on you and cause you to fall flat on your face,perfect the feature,then use it,that's the best thing you can do to be the best.

Samsung should get their sh*t together. Their flagships line are great, their mid-ranger is okayish, and their low-end is total crap. They should stop selling 720p smartphone for 250EUR, even if it's superAMOLED, it's still crap. They should adjust their lower-tier to make it comparable with huawei/honor and motorola.

Huawei is on track to making that happen they could possibly reach the #1 spot next year.

Critics are underestimating Apple’s growth with this years launch. Samsung is now in flat growth and possible downward trend to maintain Android’s premodonna. As I have mentioned for the past 5 years...it’s virtually impossible to show growth for Android manufacturers that sell and distribute Android software and services. The biggest challenge is due to the dog eat dog mentality in which does not stimulate growth within the eco system, but pure survival with low margin. It provides excellent marketing and market penetration but does not allow Android manufacturers to capitalize on true growth and profits.