https://wccftech.com/huawei-smartphone-shipments-2019-270-million/

For a company that was moments away from completing losing access to Google’s Android OS and a partnership with ARM because of a recent ban, Huawei’s CEO remains quite optimistic about the company’s future, according to a new statement. With Huawei selling 200 million smartphones in 2018, generating $26.8 billion USD in Q1 2019, and expected to take Samsung’s position as the leader of all smartphone brands by the end of 2020, the Chinese giant was riding on a wave of unyielding momentum. Then, a series of setbacks in the form of bans struck the company to a point where it felt like all hope was lost, but it certainly doesn’t look to be the case now.

Global Times put out a tweet recently, detailing that Huawei CEO, Ren Zhengfei, has stated that 270 million devices from the company will be shipped in 2019. That’s a massive figure; 70 million more than the total number of smartphones Huawei shipped last year. In comparison, Samsung shipped around 293.7 million phones in the same year, suggesting that by the end of 2019, if the Korean giant manages to achieve the same figure, Huawei will be inches away from taking the company’s top spot.