BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Smartphones of China’s Huawei overtook Apple’s iphone to be the bestseller in online sales in Russia for the first time in June, said a report of local media in Russia.
According to statistics from Russian retailers, market share of Huawei smartphones grew four percentage points to 21 percent in June, while iphone’s market share declined two percentage points to 19 percent and that of Samsung was 13 percent.
Russian analysts believed online sales help Huawei defeat competitors as the marketing events and discounts attracted many online consumers.
The report cited sales staff in Russia as saying that Huawei actively launched marketing events and introduced a series of new smartphones with competitive prices, and they soon took the lead in online searching.
(Edited by Yang Qi, kateqiyang@xinhua.org)