Huawei’s global smartphone shipments surpassed 240 million units in 2019 as it fought off US blacklist

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies shipped over 240 million smartphones globally in 2019, beating shipments of more than 200 million in 2018, and making progress despite being blacklisted in May by the US from doing business with American suppliers.

Among the handsets sold last year, 6.9 million units were 5G phones, and its high-end Mate series and P series recorded year-on-year increases of over 50 per cent, according to the company’s official account on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.