Smartphone sales in China are expected to drop by as much as an alarming 50 percent in Q1 2020, given that several retail stores have remained closed for a long time. To make matters worse, production hasn’t resumed fully citing the coronavirus crisis, research reports say.

The virus outbreak has claimed more than 1000 lives and disturbed China’s manufacturing industry. Huawei and other popular Chinese smartphone manufacturers were gearing up for the country’s 5G rollout this year in a bid to help the world’s largest smartphone market make a comeback after a long period of declining sales.

Last week in a note, research firm Canalys said, “Vendors’ planned product launches will be canceled or delayed, given that large public events are not allowed in China.” The note points out that vendors will need more time to adjust the roadmaps for their product launch in China, which is likely to put a damper on 5G shipments.

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While Canalys predicts China’s smartphone shipments to drop by 50 percent in the first quarter from last year, IDC (International Data Corporation), on the other hand, expects a 30 percent drop. For those unaware, IDC is a research firm that monitors the tech sector.

Last week, Apple Inc announced its plan to extend the suspension of its retail store in China and said it hasn’t decided when they will re-open, since Foxconn, which assembles iPhones, is struggling to fully restart work at its factories. Although Foxconn got a stamp of government’s approval to restart production at a plant located in Zhengzhou, its more important plant in Shenzhen is still closed.

Without providing more details, Huawei, which is touted China’s biggest smartphone vendor, said the manufacturing capacity of the company is “running normally”. Just like the rest of the local companies, Huawei too relies on third-party manufacturers when it comes to production.

According to analysts, factories must resume production to their full capacity without delay, as this could hamper brands’ ability to make their latest products available in the market. Keeping in line with that, China’s popular Android brands including Xiaomi, Huawei, and Oppo are all slated to unveil their flagship devices in Q1 2020.

Despite the virus affecting operations at a few local factories, Oppo told Reuters that “manufacturing capacity can be guaranteed effectively” as it has plants located overseas as well. Xiaomi; however, refrained from responding to requests for comment.

IDC analyst Will Wong said, “The delays in reopening factories and the labor return time will not only affect shipments to stores, but it will also affect the product launch times in the mid- and long-term.”

On Monday, research firm TrendForce revealed that smartphone production on a global scale will drop by 12 percent in the March quarter, which converts to a five-year love of 275 million units. The research firm readjusted iPhone production by 10 percent to 41 million units, while Huawei’s production forecast was revised down to by 15 percent to 42.5 million units.

The world’s top handset maker, Samsung is likely to be the least affected by the coronavirus outbreak, as its major production plant is based in Vietnam. The report forecasts, Samsung could lower its production by a mere 3 percent to 71.5 million phones.

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The development of the mobile industry in China is growing more rapidly. Even in 2012, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer has produced a total of more than 1.18 billion units mobile phone.

That number was more than 50 percent of mobile phone sales worldwide. This further indicates the dominance of the Chinese mobile phone market is the largest market in the world plus the local mobile phone number is also increasing.

Compared with last year, there is a pretty good increase in production, which amounted to 4.3 percent. In the data held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China is also showing an increase in 3G network users reached 103.38 million people. This represents the first record of achievement in which users exceeding 100 million.

Regarding the use of internet access also increases with high usage of mobile phones and smart phones. The government noted that the present level of internet usage in China has reached 42.1 percent, an increase of 3.8 percent compared to last year. A total of 74.5 percent of Internet users in China is also access from mobile devices.

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Saat ini pangsa pasar smartphone tengah ramai di pasaran namun Apple dan Samsung telah menempati posisi dominan di pasar saat ini, the profits of the two mobile phone manufacturers and occupied more than 90% of the global smartphone sum of profits, Motorola , HTC , Sony grab market share, the intensity of competition and other world-class brands also spared no effort to its flame, nothing less than a war.

In the field of entry-level smartphone, it is an entirely different story. Thousands of smart phones from domestic market share occupied by domestic brands such as Lenovo and Huawei, which is in recent years, new emerging rookie brand ThL also showed strong growth momentum. Prior to that, we have to bring all the evaluation of of variety ThL phone, and now we have the dual-core version of ThL V12. This is the dual-core version of the new style smartphone.

ThL V12 dual-core version is the upgraded version of the previous generation, the design basically nothing changes, but more powerful performance, the machine uses a classic straight-touch design, simple around the rectangular shape with a rounded body, the overall design in line with the mainstream Android has good aesthetic philosophy.

ThL V12 gives the overall of the petite and slender, with a 4.0-inch large-screen, comfortable for one-handed operation, more suitable for small hands to use. In the hand, although very thin, but gives a real good comfort. The design and is very fine and match exactly, and select the material is relatively hard with great texture.

ThL V12 screen size is 4.0 inches, the most popular IPS wide viewing angle screen, mainstream 480 × 854 pixels resolution, clear, delicate detail, color reproduction is also more real, in general, show the effect is very excellent.

Earpiece design is relatively small, but the view from the actual use of the call effect is still very good, the handset below is the ThL LOGO as distance sensors on the left side, the right side of the front camera, this camera packs with 2 megapixel reached the top level of the smart phone, which is designed specifically for girls who like self-timer feature for taking self potrait picture.

Below the ThL V12 screen has good design also uphold a simple and practical design style, only three virtual buttons, respectively, for the return key, home key and menu key.

The back of the ThL V12 design also reflects the simple atmospheric style, black back cover with a plastic material, after a non-slip handle grip in the hand with a matte texture. In addition to sedate black, the machine comes with a stylish white, green, blue, pink and purple, a total of six colors to choose from.

The back of the ThL V12 has a 5 megapixel camera can shoot 2560 x 1920 pixel HD big picture, the other comes with flash lights, can produce clear picture in a dark environment. On the top of the side body there is universal 3.5 mm headset jack.

While on the bottom of the ThL V12 has universal USB 2.0 interface and charger interface, the right small hole for the microphone.

ThL V12 side design also reflects the minimalist style, only the left side has a volume control button. However, the side of a circle of silver metal stripe design to enhance the texture of the positive, is more beautiful.

The ThL V12 Dual-core version compared to the previous generation models significantly improve performance, and is equipped with a 1GHz MT6577 dual-core processor, with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM, more powerful performance and also built-in PowerVR SGX531 graphics chip, is very perfect for playing games or watching movies, this GPU bring speed and smooth experience.

From the configuration parameter table, we can see that the ThL V12 has the system version or processor performance and screen resolution have reached the current level of the mainstream of the smartphone, plus its good workmanship believe that strong competitiveness in the market and this phone has low prices, then in the end how the performance of this phone, Here we test software to verify.

Through the utilization of AntutuBenchmark test, we measured the score of 5079 points, although this run sub-scores compared a far from the high-end phones, but this Android phone also quite good. And the performance of dual-core phone is perfectly adequate to meet the majority of mainstream applications and games is no problem.

This phone is equpped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, offers many functionality and user friendly user interface.

Unlike other handset makers, the ThL V12 uses the native Android 4.0 operating system interface although less of some new ideas, but also to abandon the those flashy things, interface more pure, and the dual-core processor powerful performance support, system running very smooth. It’s very convenient to use, it is quite convenient.

Long press the HOME key more than 1 second, they can enter to the recent application list, the user can select a key clean-up and built-in Task Manager on ThL V12  offers easily uninstall and transfer phone inside the application, but also very convenient to use.

The ThL V12 also has built WCDMA and GSM network and supports for dual card dual standby function, users can slip two SIM cards, undoubtedly has a lot of appeal. Unfortunatelly the ThL V12 uses a 1300mAh lithium battery, thats relatively small but you can use this phone for your daily basis.

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Lenovo is a new player in the smartphone world. However, in China, Lenovo-made smartphones a very high gain. Even in the second quarter of this year, the sales of Lenovo beat Apple’s iPhone.

The achievement was somewhat remarkable for Lenovo. Given the previous period, they only ranked seventh. According to the latest data from IDC, Lenovo smartphone success rate ranks second with sales up 11 percent.

The most popular smartphones in China is still held by Samsung by selling rate reached 19 percent. Meanwhile, iPhone sales rate dropped quite a lot, from 19 percent to 10 percent.

Analysts from IDC, Zhung Wong said that the Chinese people are familiar with the products of Lenovo. This has resulted in a lot of Chinese people are likely to buy a smartphone manufactourer in China.

In this time period, the total sold 87 million units of mobile phones. Of this amount, 51 percent or 44.4 million of which are smartphones. Parties IDC said that smartphone sales rate in China has increased very dramatically.

The growth in China’s smartphone shipments comes as mobile handsets have become the number one preferred way for people in the country to log on to the Internet. China has 538 million Internet users, 388 million of which are mobile users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.

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