China: Smartphone sales expand over 12% on year in September
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 2:36 PM PST In General, Research
It’s good to see that smartphones are steadily gaining momentum in China. To put this into numbers, volume sales of smartphones in the world’s fastest growing economy grew 12.2% on year to reach 2.53 million units in September 2008.
According to CCID Consulting, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Dopod China benefited the most out of this trend. With 70% of the market, The Finnish giant ruled the Chinese smartphone sales in September, followed by Motorola with 18.9%, Dopod with 5.2%, Samsung with 2.6%, and Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) with 1% share.
China-based Coolpad ranked sixth with a 0.8% share, whereas other domestic branded vendors were unable to make significant gains in the segment.
[Via: DigiTimes]
