A man looks at his mobile phone next to a logo of Realme during its X50 5G product launch event in Beijing, China January 7, 2020.
Realme, owned by Chinese consumer hardware giant BBK Electronics which also owns the Oppo and Vivo brands, said it had reached the 200 million mark in the second quarter.
In total, just 14 companies globally which have shipped over 200 million phones to date.
"We came into existence when there were over 700 smartphone brands in the world," said Xu Qi, Realme's chief marketing officer.
Xiaomi (1810.HK) has recently released the Xiaomi 14 Pro which also runs on the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Persons:
Jason Lee, Realme, Xu Qi, Xu, Josh Ye, Miral
Organizations:
REUTERS, Research, Huawei, Samsung, Apple, Counterpoint Research, HK, Thomson
Locations:
Beijing, China, HONG KONG