That number should leap to around 5 percent by 2027, which doesn’t exactly sound impressive in the grand scheme of things. But it would represent roughly 70 million unit sales, which is not nothing either, making the aforementioned 18.3 million figure seem outright lilliputian.
The Apple-shaped question mark and Samsung’s big problem
This year’s predicted 18.3 million sales will be up 43 percent from 2022’s tally, mind you, with another healthy boost of 38 percent expected in 2024 to a shipment total of 25.2 million units equating to 2.2 percent of the smartphone market in its entirety.
Will we ever get a foldable iPhone? No one knows.
There are obviously several reasons why it’s currently impossible to try to predict exactly how many foldables will be sold worldwide in 2025 or 2026, but perhaps chief among them remains what analysts are calling the “enigmatic juggernaut.”
Samsung vs the world
At the moment, Samsung is solely responsible for 68 percent of the world’s projected 2023 foldable sales, which sounds colossal but is actually a pretty significant decline from a simply astounding 82 percent market share last year.
There’s no phone quite like the Galaxy Z Flip 5 around right now.
Huawei continues to sit in second place with a “respectable” 2.5 million shipment count and 14 percent market share (at least according to these projections), while the bronze medal will go to Oppo, which is expected to narrowly beat Xiaomi 5 to 4 percent in terms of share.
