China Information and Communications Research Institute has recently released a domestic smartphone market analysis report for June 2019 which shows that 34.31 million units were sold in China in June 2019, which is down by 6.3 percent year-on-year.
It further reveals that around 32.262 million devices sold were 4G smartphones, which is down by 5.2 percent year-on-year, and accounted for around 96.9 percent of the total shipments during that period.
Also, around 38 new smartphone models were listed for sale in the domestic smartphone market, which is down by 48.6 percent year-on-year. Also, the new smartphone models listed include nine 2G phones, 28 4G phones, and one 5G smartphone.
In June 2019, the shipments of smartphones made by the homegrown companies come down to 32.68 million units, down around 4.1 percent year-on-year and accounted for 95.2 percent of the total shipments during the same period. 37 new smartphones models of Chinese companies were listed, down 47.1 percent YoY, accounting for 97.4 percent of the total number of devices listed in June 2019.
As for the report for the first half of the year, i.e. from January 2019 to June 2019, 186 million units of smartphones were shipped, which is down by 5.1 percent year-on-year. Of these, 178 million were 4G devices, down by 4.2 percent YoY and accounted for 95.6 percent of the smartphone shipments.
However, the shipments of devices from domestic brands come to 172 million units, which is down by 1.8 percent year-on-year and accounted for 92.7 percent of the total shipments in the first half of the year.
While the smartphone shipments in China is declining, the decline for the Chinese smartphone brands is lower than the overall decline of the smartphone market in China, one of the biggest markets in the world.
(Via)
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