iPhone 6 Makes Apple The Top Smartphone Seller In China

Apple is now tops in China. Leveraging its image as a status symbol for the country's growing class of urban professionals, the iPhone maker was the No. 1 smartphone vendor in the People's Republic in the first quarter, according to numbers released ... Read more

All Top Articles about China Smartphone - May 28, 2015

A Chinese Company Is Making A Smartphone With Two Hot-Swappable Batteries

Removable batteries? Bah. External USB batteries? Child's play. Real power users use multiple batteries to make sure that their phones never turn off within a hundred miles of electricity. Or at least that seems to be the idea behind the M5, an upcoming ... Read more

Worldwide Smartphone Growth To Slow In 2015, As China Reaches Saturation

The writing has been on the wall for some time, but analysts at IDC are again confirming today that the worldwide smartphone market will continue to see its overall growth slowing in 2015. The firm says that global smartphone shipments will grow just 11.3% ... Read more

The Chinese want to challenge Apple on its home turf

Apple has continued to make its presence felt on the global smartphone market but there's a group of players looking to tackle the U.S. tech giant on its home turf – the Chinese. As the smartphone market in the world's largest economy begins to slow ... Read more

Global smartphone market set to slow down as China nears saturation

An American market research, analysis and advisory firm has predicted again that the global smartphone market will continue to see a slump in overall growth in 2015. International Data Corporation (IDC) said that smartphone shipments worldwide will grow ... Read more

Global smartphone growth cools on China sales: tracker

A slowdown in smartphone sales in China is cooling the global market for the devices, research firm IDC said Tuesday. The market tracker said global smartphone sales will see a rise of 11.3 percent in 2015, following robust growth in 2014 of 27.6 percent. Read more

Samsung Sees Chinese Smartphone Market Share Halved in 1Q15

In the first part of this series, we learned that China's smartphone market has declined for the first time in six years. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this decline is the steep fall in Samsung's fortunes in China (MCHI). Samsung's ... Read more

Twitter courting Chinese firms for ads

The San Francisco-based company already works with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, online shopping giant Alibaba Group , white goods producer Qingdao Haier and flag carrier Air China to target customers abroad. Twitter collected $436 million in first ... Read more

Apple became the number one smartphone vendor in China for the first time

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 336 million units, an increase of 19.3% during the first quarter of 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com). And Apple became the number one smartphone vendor in China for the first time. Read more

What's at Stake for Apple as China's Smartphone Market Declines?

According to a recent report from IDC (International Data Corporation), smartphone shipments to China declined by a YoY (year-over-year) rate of 4.3% in 1Q15, the first decline to occur in six years. IDC said the main reason for this decline is ... Read more