Some leading Android smartphone vendors including Samsung Electronics and Huawei have lowered their shipment targets for the third quarter as well as for the entire year of 2016 due to slacking demand for high-end smartphones globally, according to industry sources.

Samsung and Huawei both reportedly have informed downstream suppliers to reduce their inventories of parts and components prepared for the third quarter as the two vendors have lowered their shipment targets for the quarter by 10-20%, respectively, said the sources.

Samsung originally targeted to ship 28-30 million units of its Galaxy S7 for the third quarter, while Huawei aimed to ship 14-15 million Huawei P9 devices during the same period.

Moreover, Huawei reportedly has also lowered its smartphone shipment target for 2016 to 120 million units from 140 million set previously, the sources noted.

The reduced shipment target means that Huawei now expects its smartphone shipments to grow only 13% on year in 2016 compared to a 30% growth it estimated previously, said the sources. Huawei shipped 108 million smartphones in 2015.

Despite current brisk sales of its P9 and P9 Plus smartphones, Huawei has been forced to lower its shipments target for 2016 as overall sales of high-end models so far have been lower than expected, revealed the sources.