After a sabbatical, Nokia came to life when HMD Global began marketing smartphones and feature phones under the brandin 2016 amid strong competition from the Chinese smartphone-makers. In the second quarter of 2018, Nokia HMD captured a spot on the global top 10 smartphone shipments ranking for the first time since its re-entry into the smartphone market. According to Counterpoint Research, Nokia was able to gain 4.5 percent of the global market share registering a mammoth 782 percent year-on-year growth in the quarter. Nokia HMD has expanded its smartphone portfolio with a series of launches in recent months, that helped the brand increase its presence globally.