Popular realme ‘Number Series’ smartphones surpass 40 m handset sale volume

Realme, the fastest-growing smartphone brand in the world, which also recently celebrated its maiden year of operations in Sri Lanka, reported the 40 million sales volume milestone on its popular realme ‘Number smartphone’ handset line globally. 

The popular realme Number Smartphone series commenced in May 2018 with the launch of ‘realme 1’ which packed a six-inch display and ran on Android 8.1. The Number series continued thereafter with ‘realme 2’ (launched September 2018), ‘realme 3’ (March 2019), ‘realme 4’ (May 2019), ‘realme 5’ (August 2019), ‘realme 6’ (March 2020), ‘realme 7’ (October 2020), and the latest in the series ‘realme 8’ running on Android 11, was unveiled in March 2021.   

The realme Number series’ cumulative global sales (from realme 1 to realme 8) crossed the 40 million handsets mark in mid-January. 

realme – SL Head of Marketing Shawn Yan said: “This is a global milestone in realme’s journey of ‘Dare to Leap’ spirit. An important consequence of the Number series is that this realme phone came in the same year that realme entered the industry – 2018. 

“Globally, the ‘New Age Smartphone Families’ era also began in 2018. It was this Number series that turned the page for realme in the New Age. Smartphone models rolled out after 2018 belong to ‘New Age Smartphone Families’ and many other brands too launched New Age models in parallel to realm. The Number series was ranked No.4 as of 2021 – third quarter as per consolidated shipments among the ‘New Age Smartphone Families.’ 

“Another important effect for realme on the New Age Number series is this series’ role in realme’s global record of becoming the fastest brand ever to ship 100 million units in the entire smartphone history.”