China's phone market shrinks for the premier time in nine years

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The down mainly applied to smaller brands, whose shipments plunged 31 % -- the highest 5 (Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Apple) saw their numbers either dip only slightly or go up. And Xiaomi, in spite of past troubles, saw its shipments jump a staggering 32.6 percent. If there's a consolation prize, it's which high-end phones were having a field day final year. Apple dominated the space above $600, and Huawei's slice of which market jumped from two % at the finish of 2016 to eight % a year later. Those companies which care about further affordable devices going to continue Must court of law budget buyers if they need to thrive in China.

China phone market determine for a Q1 hit

Huawei is the biggest supplier, Oppo and Xiaomi are tied on No.2, Vivo is No.4 and Lenovo No.5. Oppo and Vivo are both made with the same firm – BBK Electronics. After a 10% hight in China phone shipments in Q4 to 200 mn units, Digitimes study predicts a 30% decline in units in Q1.

Global phone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall

As it stated in Smartphones universal phone market drops 9% in biggest ever fall request for new phones appears to be waning with collapse in China market and Apple shipping 5m fewer devices Boxes of the iPhone X are pictured during its launch at the Apple store in Singapore in November 2017. Photograph: Edgar Su/ReutersThe universal phone market fell 9% in a year this quarter, the biggest fall in phone history, with even Apple's iPhone discounds drop 1% as users hang on to their phones longer. Data from Strategy Analytics shows universal phone shipments shrank year-on-year from 438.7m to 400.2m in the 4th quarter of 2017. Linda Sui, director at Strategy Analytics, said: "It was the biggest annual fall in phone history. "Global iPhone volumes have in reality declined on an annual Fundamental for 5 of the past 8 quarters," told Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics.