(Telecompaper) Huawei Technologies increased its smartphone sales 39 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2015 to 48.2 million phones. Shipments of mid- and high-end devices surged 70 percent and accounted for 31 percent of total handset shipments and 42.9 percent of total revenue from mobile devices. Huawei said revenue in its consumer business group rose 69 percent to USD 9.09 billion in the first half, accounting for almost a third of the company's total sales. Of the total, handset revenue climbed 87 percent to USD 7.23 billion. Huawei earlier reported that its total sales for the first six months of 2015 increased 30 percent to CNY 175.9 billion (USD 28.3 billion).