Now isn’t that “amazing”? In the global market, the numbers aren’t at all impressive. 3.9 million phones may be double the volume of smartphones shipped in 2016, however, it’s worth noting that Google only announced it’s Pixel smartphone line up near the end of the year. That means that in the period of 3-4 months, it managed to sell around 2 million smartphones. The Apple iPhone, Google Pixel 2’s natural competitor, sold 77.3 million iPhones in just the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2017.