2021 Global Smartwatch Market Analysis Report

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2021 is a year of rapid upgrading in global smartwatch product technology and market.

Firstly, smart watches are rapidly advancing at the level of health and medical functions. Secondly, More big brand especially mobile phone manufacturers  have fully intervened, which has accelerated the market popularization of smart watches.

There is also the ups and downs of the new crown epidemic, which also attracted general people pay more attention to health, and indirectly contributes to the success of the smart watch market.

 

In 2020, the global smartwatch market shipments  reached 194 million. Among them, the shipment of renowned brands of smart watch reached 74 million, accounting for 38%; the shipment of white-labelled smart watches reached 120 million, accounting for 61.7%.

In 2021, the global smartwatch market shipments reached 210 million, an increase of 8% compared with year 2020.

Among them, renowned brand smart watch sold 122 million pieces, an yearly increase of 40%, accounting for 58%; white-labelled smart watches sold 88 million pieces, yearly decreased of 66%, accounting for 42%.

We expect global smartwatch market shipments to grow by 28% in 2022 to 270 million units.

Although Apple watch created the smart watch industry, however its watch  have only 18 hours of battery life, which has been widely criticized by consumers. As iff you wear it at night to monitor sleep, it must be powered off the next morning. The contradiction between powerful functions and battery life has allowed Chinese smart watch manufacturers such as Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Huami to find an opportunity to get into the market, and successfully shrinked the market share of  Apple Watch, with more functions like for communication functions, long battery life, and sports health monitoring... This is also the fundamental reason for why beyond high-end,  there are still so many mid-range and low-end smartwatches get the global market share.

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