According to Taiwan's Digitimes resource citing industry sources, in 2016 at Huawei has all chances to become a leader in terms of growth of deliveries of smart phones, while other leading vendors, including companies Samsung Electronics, Apple and Xiaomi, face stagnation or even decline in shipments.

Global supply Huawei in 2015 amounted to 108 million smartphones, an increase over last year's volume of 75 million units by 44%. According to the forecast of sources, in 2016 shipments of smart phones Huawei will continue to increase by more than 20% to reach 120 million units.

Samsung's shipments in 2015 amounted to 320 million smartphones. This is slightly less than the previous year, and is the first reduction in the company's supply on an annual basis. Volumes of supplies flagship device Galaxy S6 Series and PHABLET Galaxy Note 5 last year amounted to 40 and 10 million, respectively, which is significantly below the expectations of market observers.

Despite the fact that Samsung plans to increase sales of devices an average price level and expand its presence in emerging markets, its volume of deliveries for 2016, according to sources, will remain unchanged.

The same sources forecast is pessimistic about the prospects for iPhone. It is expected that in 2016 Apple's smartphone shipments reached 220 million units, up 5% less than the volume of the previous year.

Xiaomi shipped in 2015, 70 million smartphones, unable to cope with the intended target of 80 million units. In the current year delivery devices Xiaomi unlikely to reach a new high, as the company intends to focus on increasing the competitiveness of manufactured devices, and not the growth of volumes.