Who shipped phones in Q2 2026
IDC's final worldwide table for the second quarter of 2026, sourced to its Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of August 6 and still the print on the promo page dated September 17, puts global shipments at 276.3 million units, down 7.4 percent from a year earlier. Samsung shipped 62.7 million (22.7 percent, up 8.1 percent) and Apple 55.7 million (20.2 percent, up 14.9 percent). Xiaomi shipped 31.2 million (11.3 percent, down 26.4 percent), OPPO 28.9 million (10.5 percent, down 17.1 percent) and vivo 21.2 million (7.7 percent, down 19.6 percent). Others were 76.6 million. IDC counts branded shipments and excludes OEM sales. No later worldwide quarterly table was on that page as of 6 October.
vivo is now a tracked member of this industry, fifth in that table. Huawei is also tracked and is not a named row; on the same page IDC says Huawei stands apart with 19.9 percent year-over-year growth, a growth comment rather than a unit total. Transsion is tracked and likewise unnamed in the public top-five table. The 2025 smartphone-share citation on Transsion's company page is a different year and is not a Q2 2026 rank.
China ranks Huawei first
IDC China's preliminary Q2 2026 table, dated July 14, is a different ranking. China shipments were about 66 million units, down 4.3 percent, the fifth straight quarterly decline. Huawei led at 22.6 percent share, up 19.4 percent year over year. Apple was second at 18.1 percent, up 24.4 percent. OPPO and vivo are a statistical tie at 16.0 percent; the note says vivo includes iQOO and OPPO includes OPPO, OnePlus and realme. Xiaomi was 12.4 percent, down 21.7 percent. Honor was sixth at 11.3 percent, down 9.5 percent, and is not a tracked member. Samsung was 0.1 percent in China. IDC says the top six vendors hold about 96 percent of the China market.
The same IDC worldwide forecast still expects 2026 shipments to fall 16.7 percent to just over 1 billion units while market value rises 6.3 percent to $613 billion and average selling price reaches $581, up 27.6 percent. Android shipments are forecast down 24.3 percent. iOS share is forecast at 23.6 percent, with iOS shipments down 1.3 percent. HarmonyOS is forecast to nearly triple, to 51 million phone units, from a small base. Those are IDC forecasts, not company guidance, and they are not the same as Huawei's later claim that HarmonyOS 6 and 7 together power more than 90 million mixed devices.
Foldables: Apple named, not yet shipping
IDC still treats foldables as the 2026 volume exception, up 12.6 percent to 22.9 million units, tied to an Apple entry in the second half. It forecasts more than 17 million foldable iPhones by 2027, about 40 percent of that category. That remains a forecast. On 9 September 2026 Apple named the product iPhone Duo: a 7.6-inch inner display, a 5.4-inch outer display, A20 Pro, and a U.S. starting price of $1,999. Pre-orders begin at 5 a.m. PT on 16 October in more than 70 countries and regions, including China, India, Japan and the United States, with availability on 23 October and 28 further markets on 30 October. As of 6 October it is listed as a product, not a shipping phone.
Samsung's shipping Android foldable set is the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra and Flip8 lineup unveiled on 22 July 2026, with pre-orders in select markets that day. Fold8 is described as Samsung's lightest Galaxy Z Fold at 201 g. Fold8 Ultra is given as 4.1 mm unfolded and 215 g. Those are Samsung's announcement figures, not a 2026 foldable shipment total.
Mate 90 is on sale in China
Huawei launched the Mate 90 series on 1 October 2026. The PR Newswire release prices the Mate 90 from CNY 5,999 with Kirin 9030, the Mate 90 Pro from CNY 6,999 with Kirin 9035, the Mate 90 Pro Max from CNY 9,499, and the Mate 90 RS Ultimate Design from CNY 12,999 with Kirin 9050 Pro. It says HarmonyOS 6 and HarmonyOS 7 power over 90 million devices, including smartphones, PCs and tablets, and that the mix is on track to pass 100 million by year-end. That is a Huawei device-count claim, not IDC's 51 million HarmonyOS phone forecast, and it is not a Mate 90 sell-through print.
No public first-week unit total was found. The launch tests whether Huawei can keep a China flagship cadence on in-house Kirin silicon while memory costs rise. It does not by itself move Huawei onto IDC's worldwide top-five shipment table.
What to watch
The next dated commercial tests are whether iPhone Duo pre-orders actually open on 16 October and whether first units are sold on 23 October, and whether Huawei discloses Mate 90 sell-through after the 1 October China on-sale. The next official worldwide reading is still a later IDC quarterly table; Q3 2026 was not on the promo page. Watch whether Xiaomi's, OPPO's and vivo's second-quarter declines persist in that table, and whether Huawei or Transsion appears as a named worldwide row. Honor remains the largest China-share vendor in IDC's preliminary Q2 table that this page does not track. Company revenue is still not comparable across members: Apple reports a fiscal quarter in dollars, Samsung a calendar quarter in won, Xiaomi a fiscal half in renminbi, Huawei a calendar year in yuan, and OPPO and vivo do not disclose group revenue on the pages used here.
