Smartphone shipments in China surge by 36% in February
Smartphone shipments in China increased to 27.8 million units in February 2017, a 35.5% increase year on year. The Chinese handset market increased 6.7% to reach 76.4 million units in the first two months of the year. 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.

Smartphone shipments in China picked up speed in February, increasing 35.5 per cent year-on-year to 27.8 million units, defying predictions of an imminent slowdown.

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).

Sino Market Research this week forecast sluggish handset growth over the next two years, with the domestic market tipped to rise 2 per cent and 3 per cent in 2017 and 2018 respectively, C114.net reported.

Smartphones accounted for 94 per cent of domestic mobile phone shipments in February, with nearly 82 per cent Android-based models, the CAICT report said.

Local-brand handset shipments rose 36.7 per cent year-on-year during the month to 26.2 million units, accounting for 88.7 per cent of domestic shipments. For the January-February period shipments by local brands rose 8.4 per cent to 67 million units.