Beating iPhone 12, Galaxy A12 is the best-selling smartphone in 2021-Hi-tech fashion

Galaxy A12 is said to have usurped Apple’s iPhones and become the best-selling smartphone in 2021.

This is a very surprising detail when this is a low-cost smartphone launched by Samsung since the end of 2020. According to Omdia’s report, in 2021, Galaxy A12 has achieved huge sales of more than 50 million units to become Most shipped phones.

Specifically, Samsung shipped 51.8 million Galaxy A12 units to the market in 2021, far exceeding the Galaxy A12 iPhone 12″ in second place with only 41.7 million units sold. Interestingly, the price of iPhone 12 is 5 times higher than that of Galaxy A12. The average selling price of Galaxy A12 is $ 160 (VND 3.66 million), while iPhone 12 has an average price of $ 851 (VND 19.46 million).

Behind the iPhone 12 is its successor, the iPhone 13, with 34.9 million units sold. iPhone 11 is in 4th place with 33.6 million units sold. After 3 high-end phones is another low-cost phone in 5th place, Redmi 9A. This is the cheapest phone on this list with an average price of $78.

The next positions in turn belong to iPhone 12 Pro MaxiPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro. Finally, the phone at number 10 on Omdia’s list is another low-cost phone from Samsung, the Galaxy A02.

Reportedly, the most expensive phone shipped according to the list is the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Meanwhile, the cheapest product is Redmi 9A.

Samsung’s top spot on this list shows that budget A-series phones are quite popular. From 2019, the Korean company shifted its focus to the A series instead of the J series, and the market share of the A series seems to have grown steadily since then. That shows that more Samsung A series phones may appear in the future as Samsung continues to focus on the mid-range and low-cost segments globally.