Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.

  • @ByeEnglish
    2•14 days ago

    It uses Wi-Fi and has sms fallback and works with iMessage

    • @[email protected]English
      17•14 days ago

      RCS on android is similar, and when IOS 18 comes out of beta it’ll finally support RCS which basically solves this completely. Uses wifi or data, sms fallback, works cross platform, and allows for high quality pictures/video, read receipts and reactions

      • @[email protected]English
        7•14 days ago

        RCS is a pile of garbage for many reasons. On Android, it’s locked behind Google’s proprietary, privacy-invasive Messages app, and there is no API for third-party RCS clients (like with SMS). The encryption is also implemented in that proprietary client, offering no transparency and meaning that it’s probably backdoored. No one should ever trust encryption software if its source code isn’t public. People should use actual private messengers like Signal, with open source applications available for all platforms, as well as all of the features you mentioned. The only thing it obviously lacks is SMS fallback, but it’s really unnecessary, because Wi-Fi or cell data are literally available everywhere nowadays.

      • Carighan MaconarEnglish
        4•14 days ago

        Yeah but you can bet Apple will do their darndest to make it unlikely anybody is using it.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•14 days ago

          I’ve been on the iOS 18 beta for the last month or so and RCS support has been super smooth. Still “green bubbles” so it’s hard to distinguish at a glance from SMS, but there are headers every time it switches between the two like when switching between iMessage and SMS

      • @[email protected]English
        3•14 days ago

        iOS 18 will have RCS support. It’s available in the public beta already and is integrated pretty smoothly

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        3•13 days ago

        I mean, the biggest (or rather, only) reason I still use WhatsApp is that it works with (other people’s) WhatsApp.