Smartphone shipments in China increased to 27.8 million units in February 2017, a 35.5% increase year on year. The company said that the number of smartphones shipped was up by more than 50% year-on-year, and it expects smartphone sales growth to continue at double-digit rates for the rest of 2017. However, Sino Market Research has predicted that there will be slow handset growth over the next two years, with the domestic Chinese market rising 2% in 2017 and 3% in 2018. Smartphones represented 94% of domestic mobile phone shipments in February, with 82% being Android models. Overall shipments of mobile phones in February jumped 33 per cent year-on-year to 29.6 million units, with the handset market up 6.7 per cent to 76.4 million units in the first two months of 2017, according the latest figures from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). Local-brand handsets made up 88.7% of shipments, a rise of 36.7% from the previous February.
Smartphone shipments in China increased to 27.8 million units in February 2017, a 35.5% increase year on year. The company said that the number of smartphones shipped was up by more than 50% year-on-year, and it expects smartphone sales growth to continue at double-digit rates for the rest of 2017. However, Sino Market Research has predicted that there will be slow handset growth over the next two years, with the domestic Chinese market rising 2% in 2017 and 3% in 2018. Smartphones represented 94% of domestic mobile phone shipments in February, with 82% being Android models. Local-brand handsets made up 88.7% of shipments, a rise of 36.7% from the previous February.