Huawei P50 Pocket burst into the foldable smartphone market and almost caught up with the Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 – Samsung Galaxy Flip 4 leads without a chance for competitors

Introduced late last year Huawei Pfifty Pocket abruptly broke into the market of folding smartphones in the new year, taking away a significant part of it from the company's models Samsung.

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Samsung Galaxy Flip 4 is still leading without a chance for other models available on the market. At the same time, in the first quarter of this year, its share decreased by almost 10%, amounting to 51%. As you can see, last year's clamshell still controls more than half of the foldable smartphone market.

Lost even more Samsung Galaxy Fold 4. Last year, he increased the share from 25% to 35%, but in the first quarter of this year, it fell to 21%. But Huawei Pfifty Pocket took a little less than 20% of the market and is located on the third line.

All other foldable smartphones together control about 9% of the market. At the same time, the share of none of the models does not exceed 2.5%.

As for manufacturers, the company is unconditionally in the lead here. Samsung, but its share compared to the last quarter of 2021 fell from 95% to 74%. Success Huawei Pfifty Pocket gave the Chinese company the opportunity to take 20% of the market. In total, 2.22 million foldable smartphones were sold in the first quarter, up 571% from a year earlier.

Source: DSCC