10.08.2024

In the first nine months of 2024, smartphone sales in Romania advanced by around 6-7% by value against the year-earlier period, but by volume the market stagnated, in line with estimates by the local more

08.09.2024

Romania smartphone market is expected to be flat at around 3.5-3.6 million units this year as in recent years there’s been a downward or stagnation trend by quantity, but by value there has been more

08.05.2024

In the first half of this year, around 1.5 million smartphones were sold in Romania, flat from the year-earlier period, with the market growing only by value, by around 5-6%, in line with estimates by more

11.28.2023

China-held OPPO, one of the world’s biggest players on the smartphone market, which entered Romania market in 2020, reached a 5-6% share of the local smartphone market in the first ten months of more

11.22.2023

Smartphone sales in Romania will reach almost EUR1.5 billion at the end of 2023, an increase of some 8% on 2022, while the volume will continue to shrink, with the decline estimated at some 6% for the more

07.31.2023

Romania’s smartphone market in the first half of this year revolved around 1.6 million units, down by volume from the year-earlier period, but up by value, with sales totaling EUR560 million, up 20% more

06.19.2023

Four out of five Romanians who will go on holiday abroad in 2023 plan to pay there by card, smartphone, or smartwatch, as per the latest Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2023 covering more

10.07.2022

Romania’s smartphone market grew by 18% in value to EUR820 million in the first eight months of this year compared with the year-ago period, while dropping 2% in volume. more

08.23.2021

Romania’s smartphone market continues to grow and should reach EUR1.2 billion by yearend, as people allocate higher and higher budgets for premium models, since the smartphone has become a device more

04.02.2020

Romania’s smartphone market had stated the year with several percent rise in the number of units delivered and a significant rise in value, almost 20% before the coronavirus struck and the economy more

02.10.2020

South Korea’s Samsung had its best year ever on the smartphone market in Romania in 2019, as its market share reached about 54% by volume, 6% higher than in the previous year, even though the more

07.10.2019

The smartphone market in Romania did not continue to grow in value as it did in 2018 and dropped in the first few months of 2019, as users turned away from premium smartphones costing more than more

07.08.2019

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05.13.2019

The local subsidiary of China’s Huawei sold more than one quarter of the total number of smartphones purchased in Romania in March, which is its best performance since its arrival in this country, more

04.04.2019

Samsung and Huawei’s subsidiaries sold about 70% of the smartphones purchased in Romania in 2018, an increase of almost 20% over 2016, which shows local users chose more expensive phones from market more

02.27.2019

The smartphone market in Romania reached 4.7 million units last year, 4% more than in 2017, as the market is maturing, and growth will no longer come from volume but from sales of premium models. more

12.28.2018

Brasov-based Visual Fan, which sells various gadgets branded as Allview, saw a decline on the smartphone market again in 2018, after an almost 50’% drop in revenue due to its exit from several more

10.31.2018

China’s Huawei, one of the world’s largest smartphone manufactures, saw its revenue from sales of smartphones and consumer products almost double in 2018 over the previous year, beating its more

08.24.2018

The smartphone market growth rate was higher than expected in the first half, over 40% by value, driven by the rising appetite of Romanian consumers for more expensive phones. The number of units more

07.17.2018

The sales of Visual Fan (Allview) in Brasov saw an abrupt decline from 306 million lei (EUR66 million) to RON157 million in 2017, mainly due to the decision to drop the cheap smartphones from the more

06.08.2018

Asus Romania, the local subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, has increased revenue to about EUR130 million in 2017, and its 2018 target is EUR140 million. The company relies on the more

04.23.2018

Contactless payments with smartphones or smartwatches will become frequent in Romania in two years as users want such services, the infrastructure to accept such payments is there and several banks more

01.15.2018

The number of smartphones sold in Romania last year went up by 9% to 4.5 million and the value of sales was even higher, 27%, as demand for premium models is on the rise. more

11.07.2017

China’s Huawei, which climbed to the second spot on the smartphone market in Romania in several years, gaining 15% market share by number of units sold, has a lot of room for growth on this market more

08.25.2017

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