https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/chinas-huawei-says-it-may-become-the-top-smartphone-maker-by-the-end-of-2019.html > China's Huawei Technologies, which overtook Apple as the world's second-largest smartphone vendor in the June quarter, forecast global smartphone shipments exceeding 200 million this year, a recovery after a sharp slowdown last year. > That would represent a 31 percent growth in shipments for 2018. Huawei had shipped 153 million smartphones last year, up just 10 percent over 2016. Its shipments had grown by 29 percent in 2016.