It’s no secret that the global smartphone market is in bad need of a major growth driver after several years of stagnation at both the industry innovation level and in terms of actual sales numbers. It’s also no secret that mobile device vendors and market analysts were counting on two big breakthroughs to put the industry on the right track to healthy growth by the end of 2019.

If Canalys is correct, 5G smartphones could jump from a market share of less than one percent straight to an 11.8 percent slice of the pie in 2020, then more than 27 percentage points the next year, 39.5 in 2022, and finally, a dominant 51.4 percent share of worldwide sales in 2023. That would equate to almost 800 million units, up from under 600 million in 2022 and a little over 160 million in 2020, of which the “Greater China” region is unsurprisingly expected to grab the largest portion of shipments.