Huawei and Samsung celebrate smartphone strength

Huawei is crowing about out-performing the smartphone market while Samsung Electronics has seen its profits jump by 50%.
Huawei’s Consumer Business Group is forecasting sales revenue of 178 billion RMB for the whole of 2016, up 42% from a year ago. This is on the back of a 29% year-on-year growth in annual smartphone shipments to 139 million units – massively out-pacing the stagnant overall market. The flagship P9 model has also topped 10 million units shipped – the first time,