Huawei doubles sales from last year, eating into but still far behind Samsung

Huawei has had a good year, according to the latest market share numbers from IDC. Between the second quarter of 2013 and the second quarter of 2014, Huawei has enjoyed a huge 95.1 percent increase in smartphone shipments, placing them in third place behind Apple and Samsung, and ahead of Lenovo and LG. Previously they were fifth place in the rankings. Huawei's global market share works out to 6.9 percent with more than 20 million in shipments in the second quarter, versus 4.3 percent (10.4 million) last year. Samsung's shipments dipped 3.9 percent in the same period, while Apple's climbed 12.4 percent.

Despite some impressive hardware, Huawei has yet to crack into the North American market, but they're clearly doing just fine focusing on their Asian markets.

Do you guys see a lot of Huawei handsets out in the wild? Can you picture a future where their shipment volume beats out Apple, or even Samsung?

Source: IDC