Huawei on Wednesday reported that first half revenue at its devices unit surged 69% on last year to reach US$9.1 billion.
The Chinese vendor said the revenue generated by Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG), which makes mobile phones, mobile broadband devices and customer premises equipment (CPE), accounted for 32% of Huawei’s overall revenue in 1H 2015, up from 24% last year.
"Such a remarkable and rapid growth in performance is a result of Huawei’s consumer BG’s commitment to consumers’ needs and our core strategy of providing innovative hardware technology and software," said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer BG, in a statement.
Huawei shipped 48.2 million smartphones in the first six months of 2015, up 39% on last year. Of that total, some 13 million were flagship devices: 5 million Huawei Mate7s, 7 million P7s, and more than 1 million P8s were shipped during the first half.
Going forward, Huawei Consumer BG said it will maintain its wearables strategy – which has so far seen it launch three smartwatches – and continue in its aim to be a leading play er in the connected car industry.
"With our consistent and huge investment in R&D, Huawei is set to become one of the key players in the long-run," said Yu.
Huawei published its preliminary revenue figure for the first half of the year on Monday.
