The Strategy Analytics, a research firm, has revealed that China has recently surpassed the US in the smartphone market. It has been revealed that the delivery and operation of smartphone in China market has increased by
58% in the third quarter of this year.
58% in the third quarter of this year.
It is believed that a surge in the China’s smartphone market has occurred due to subsidies offered by operators like Apple. Moreover, lower price smartphones running on Google have also helped in boosting the Smartphone market of China.
Although the smartphone market of China has witnessed a surge, its shipments in the US have experienced a decline of 7%. Nokia alone shipped 6.8 million smartphones to China. Beside, Samsung shipped about 4.2 million smartphones in the China.
While commenting upon the progress of China’s smartphone market, Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston said, “China is now at the forefront of the worldwide mobile computing boom. China has become a large and growing smartphone market that no hardware vendor, component maker or content developer can afford to ignore”.
It is for the very first time when China has overtaken the US in the smarphone market. China has gained the reputation of world’s largest mobile phone market as it has 952 million users. Moreover, its market is continuously growing. With the advent of 3G phones, it’s believed that the China’s smartphone market would witness more demand.
As the China has turned a powerful smartphone market, the international hardware vendor and component developers can not afford to ignore it. In the coming time it will be interesting to see as to how far the smartphone market of China grows worldwide. Moreover, it would also be interesting to see as for how long it continues to supersede the US smartphone market.
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