As the OnePlus 10 Pro design has been revealed, OnePlus has finally reconfirmed the launch event of its highly anticipated OnePlus 10 Pro. It will be happening on January 11th at 2PM CST in China.

As shown in the promotional poster below, the official slogan for the OnePlus 10 Pro is “bringing 10 to the name”, a pun of a Chinese saying, “bringing fame to the name”. 10 is seen as the perfect 10/10 score for many sports such as diving, gymnastics, and 10-pin bowling, and OnePlus is trying to imply that the OnePlus 10 Pro is going to bring perfection to the flagship smartphone space, and will be solidifying the OnePlus brand name in the premium smartphone category.

At the same time, Pete Lau, founder of OnePlus, has also gone to Weibo to share his excitement of the announcement with fellow OnePlus fans as well!

Pete shares that in 2022, the OnePlus brand has been established for 9 years, and the OnePlus community is now spanning across 50 countries with 1.4 million active users worldwide. As once called the “flagship killers” in the industry, he shares that OnePlus wants to challenge itself further, with a truly 10/10 premium flagship, to be worthy to be called a “perfect flagship”.

He mentions that to create a “perfect flagship”, one must follow a 10 point rule, whereby 3 points go into the specs of the product and 7 points go to the finish and polish of the product. He said that this mission has been accomplished with the 10th iteration of the OnePlus flagship, the OnePlus 10 Pro. Despite that, he mentions that the OnePlus 10 Pro will still have the top of the specs within its class, albeit with a more refined finish for OnePlus’ first truly ultra-premium smartphone.

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With the lockdowns due to COVID-19 pandemic, kids around the world are continuing their education at home. Similarly, more people are working from home than ever before. This led to the rise of the global tablet market and Lenovo even became the fastest-growing tablet brand in Q2 2020, according to Canalys. Now, a new report by IDC says that Educational Tablet market in China also witnessed 29.9% YoY increase in the last quarter.

The IDC report points out the Educational Tablet Market in China to decline by 9.2% YoY in Q1 2020 but it was less compared to the ordinary tablet market’s 29.8% YoY decline. The research firm says that it was due to reduced production capacity and therefore, with improvement in production, China Educational Tablet Market grew 29.9% YoY in Q2 2020.

As usual, BBK, the parent company of OPPO, vivo, OnePlus, realme, and iQOO lead the market with a whopping 41.8%  share. Whereas, brands like ReadBoy, youxupeai, Subor, and Ozing secured second, third, fourth, and fifth positions with 10.4%, 9.1%, 8.3%, and 4.4% market shares respectively.

China Educational Tablet Market Q2 2020

As per IDC, most sales occurred through offline retailers, closely followed by online retailers. The firm also noted that celebrity endorsements and advertisements were the key factors supporting these sales.

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IDC has released its report on China’s wearable market for Q1 2020. According to it, Huawei led the market just like it did in smartphones. Apple and Garmin were the only non-Chinese companies performing well in the region. As a whole, the market shipped 17.62 million units, which translates to 11.3% YoY decline.

According to the report, the shipments of basic wearables that don’t have support for third-party apps (eg. fitness trackers) decreased by 5.5% YoY with 14.86 million units. On the other hand, the proper smartwatches (including adult and kids) also witnessed a whopping decline of 33.3% with only 2.76 million units.

The decrease in shipments is due to the COVID-19 pandemic but it also helped in the increased shipments of wireless earphones (26.5% YoY) and adult smartwatches (8.4%) as people are working as well as attending schools/colleges from their homes.

As per IDC, by the end of 2020, the overall wearable market of China will grow by 17.4% while wireless earphones and adult smartwatches will grow by 47.7% and 37.6% respectively.

China’s Top 5 Wearable Brands in Q1 2020

1. Huawei
2. Xiaomi
3. Apple
4. LifeSense
5. BBK Electronics

Huawei led the overall Chinese wearable market in Q1 2020 with shipments of 4.282 million units, which accounted for 24.3% market share. The company grew 18.8% YoY as its shipments and market share were 3.605 million and 18.1% at the same time last year (Q1 2019).

Xiaomi came a close second with 23.5% market share based on 4.144 million units of shipments. But it witnessed a decline of 0.6%. In the previous year, it led the market with 4.177 million units and 21.0% market share.

At the third position, Apple shipped 2.848 million units covering 16.2% of the market. The US tech giant grew 15.2% YoY from 12.4% market share and 2.473 million units.

The fourth position was occupied by LifeSense with 4.5% market share shipping 785K units. It was the only brand to show a huge increase in its market share by 72.9% YoY. For comparison, in Q1 2019, it only shipped 458K units and grabbed a mere 2.3% market share.

Lastly, the fifth place was held by BBK Electronics, which is known for its Okii XTC smartwatches for kids. It shipped 765K units down from 1.448 million units last year. It only accounted for 4.3% market share compared to last year’s 7.3%. In other words, it was the worst-performing of all the top brands with 47.1% YoY decline.

China’s Top 5 Adult Smartwatch Brands in Q1 2020

As adult smartwatch performed well in Q1 2020 in China, IDC also released a separate top 5 chart for it. Here’s a table to understand it better.

From the table, we can clearly see that Xiaomi and Huawei were the most successful brands in Q1 2020 with an increase of 189.5% and 111.9% YoY respectively. However, Huami’s market share plunged by 71.6% YoY making it the worst-performing top brands in the same period.

Non-Chinese brands like Apple and Garmin’s Jiaming made it to the top list but only the former showed an increase of 11.9% YoY, whereas the latter declined by 16.1% YoY.

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BBK Learning phones brand – Imoo seems to have  got something up its sleeves as a new Imoo smartphone dubbed Imoo C1 has surfaced on TENAA. The device got the nod of the Chinese Telecoms regulation agency and along the line, we got to see some of its specs.

According to the TENAA listing, Imoo C1 sports a 5.5-inch idsolay with a resolution of 720 pixels. The smartphone also has a 2.5D curved glass over the screen. The Imoo C1 is powered by an octa-core processor clocked at 2GHz and it is backed by 3GB of RAM and there is 32GB of internal storage onboard.

In addition, the Imoo C1 features a 13MP rear camera unit as well as an 8MP front-facing sensor for cool selfies. Keeping the lights on is a generous 2,945mAh battery and the phone will run Android Marshmallow 6.0 out-of-the-box.

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In keeping with the latest trend, the Imoo Learning phone comes with a dual camera setup at the rear but the details of the pixel sizes are not yet known. There seem to be no antenna band lines at the back which is an indication that the device is using a plastic back or that it has hidden antenna design if it turns out it uses a metal fuselage. Up front, there is a physical home button which should also function as fingerprint sensor since there is no fingerprint sensor mounted at the rear.

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Vivo, one of the sub-brands of BBK Electronics has had a strong ranking among domestic Chinese phone manufacturers this year. Quarterly rankings by research firms like IDC and TrendForce for Q2 2016 had  placed the company among the top three in terms of highest phone shipments, alongside market leader Huawei and OPPO (another BBK brand). Now it has been revealed by a Weibo user that the company will gross a total of about 70 million in phone shipments this year.

According to the Weibo user, the innovative brand is targeting a figure in the range of 90 million to 100 million phone shipments next year. In the same vein, industry analyst Sun Changxu projects that Vivo’s phone sales could even clock up to 75 million units before the end of the year.

Related: IDC Q2 2016 Smartphone Shipments (China): Winners and Losers

Vivo had broke into the top three tier for the Q2 2016 through its agressive phone sales using offline sales channels. The company also released a number of top notch devices this year such as the Vivo Xplay5, X5, X6 and X6 Plus, X6S and very recently the X7 and X7 Plus high-end smartphones. According to well-known industry analyst Pan Juitang, Vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi and Huawei are all expected to launch new smartphones by the end of October to crown up their sales for 2016.

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Research firm Gartner has released its market report for the second quarter of 2016 which showed how the mobile phones brand fared in the last quarter. Overall, the report shows smartphone sales for the second quarter grew by 4.3% when compared to last year’s growth.

In the overall rankings, three Chinese smartphone makers, Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi ranked from third to fifth in that order. Huawei maintained its third position in global sales for the second quarter of 2016 selling over 30 million smartphones during that period, representing 8.9% of the market share and a 0.9% growth for Huawei from last year’s Q2 figures.

On the other hand, OPPO continued its run of booming sales during the second quarter fueled by the success of the R9. Whereas last year the company sold a little over 8 million phones during the second quarter, it recorded a monumental figure of over 18 million.

Xiaomi’s shipments for Q2 2016 recorded the smallest growth margin of just 0.2% leaping from 4.5% in Q2 2015 to 4.7% this year. In addition, Vivo (listed as BBK) also made it into the list of top 10 brands in overall sales volume for the second quarter of 2016.

Meanwhile, Samsung was the top smartphone seller, with 76.7 million smartphones sold, compared with 72 million sold a year earlier. That increase boosted its share to 22.3%, up from 21.8%. Gartner attributed Samsung’s increased sales to have been benefited by sales of the Galaxy A and Galaxy J series of smartphones which competed well against devices from Chinese smartphone makers.

Gartner’s report also revealed Apple’s iPhone sales dropped 7.7% in the second quarter, with 44.4 million phones sold globally, down from 48 million a year earlier. This decreased Apple’s market share to 12.9%, down from 14.6% a year earlier. Even at that, Apple maintained the second position in global smartphone sales.

In all the overall smartphone sales reached 344 million, slightly higher than last year’s second quarter figures of 330 million. In terms of operating system, Android devices occupied 86% of the total market in sales, compared to 14.6% for iOS and 2.5% for Windows.

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Earlier teasers about the new brand from BBK “imoo learning phone” were not certain to describe its features. We knew that the youngest brand of the BBK family will come targeting education, therefore targeting students first. Other members of the family are Oppo, Vivo and OnePlus as we highlighted in this article. Now we know most of  the specs and why its called a learning phone for young students.

Lesson/subject synchronization, teacher consulting and parent safety (probably tracking of the children) are some info related about “student and school” relationship. Students can use the data-saving feature of imoo phone, thereby using less internet for their learning. They will also have the chance to track their schedule/lessons online from imoo.

Imoo looks like its big brother, Vivo V3Max in front. Back side of the phone is similar to the iPhone 6s except the hole between the camera and the flash. It could be a place for the laser focus in addition to some other feature, which we will know for sure after the official launch. What’s more interesting is that we can’t see any fingerprint scanner back or front and imoo may have thought that it’s not necessary for children.

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The learning phone comes with a 5.5″ Full HD AMOLED  screen, equipped with MediaTek P10  eight-core 2GHz processor. 3GB RAM, 32GB ROM, 2930mAh battery, 13MP rear camera, 5MP selfie camera are the other specs of the phone as we know for now. It will have Android 6.0 out of the box measuring 158 x 78 x 7 mm and 154.5 gm.

We all know that Chinese students are a big community, following mobile technology very well. Most of them will probably want a new phone for the next school period and  parents might choose to buy imoo for their children because of the education oriented abilities of the new brand. Price for the imoo phone will be around 2000 Yuan – $300.

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You may have come across the company, BBK Electronics, in the past, as we have mentioned this name a couple of times in the past few years. The company is important to all Chinese smartphone lovers, as they are behind some of the most famous phone brands in the market right now, including OPPO, Vivo, and even OnePlus. So, if BBK is releasing a new smartphone brand, we can expect some pretty good products.

The company has just released a new brand called as “imoo”. This particular brand will be focused on making educational smartphones. This is not actually a new market for BBK, as the company has been involved with educational toys for kids for the past few years. So, the company is now bringing its experience in the educational segment and the smartphone segment together to make educational smartphones under the imoo brand. We are not entirely sure what to expect from these so-called educational smartphones, but more details are coming in the next few days.

The new brand imoo also released the first teaser for its device recently, which reveals some details about the phone. First of all, the brand is calling it as the “imoo learning phone” and it will be officially announced on June 24. Also, from the image, we can confirm that the phone comes with a slim form factor and metal frame with at least one color option, gold.

Another interesting thing we noted here was that the company said “imoo is coming” in English. Plus, there are a lot of words in English on the teaser image. Could we see some learning material from Chinese to Eng or vice versa on this phone? Maybe, we are just speculating too much based on limited information. Anyway, we should hear more about the phone this week. Stay tuned!

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