SHENZHEN/TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S./SEOUL -- Trade tensions are casting a shadow over the world's three big smartphone makers, even as they pin their hopes on the launch of next-generation 5G handsets to inject new life into a declining market.
Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies, and Apple -- who together control more than 50% of the market -- all bore the scars of escalating U.S.-China and Japan-South Korea trade tensions, as they announced quarterly results this week.
