China's realme is now the fastest smartphone brand to reach 100 million shipments

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Chinese smartphone brand, realme shipped its 100 millionth smartphone worldwide during June 2021, making it the fastest brand ever to reach 100 million shipments in the history of the global smartphone market, at 37 months, ahead of Xiaomi, Apple, vivo, OPPO, Huawei, and Samsung. According to Strategy Analytics, realme’s global smartphone growth has been driven strongly by China and India.

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