Wondering why the US market is regarded as one of the most lucrative markets in the world, ask Apple. Perhaps having a stronghold in one of the world’s most lucrative markets has helped the tech company gain so much growth globally.

A new report by Canaccord Genuity reveals the US company grabbed a large chunk of the smartphone market last year.Specifically, the report claims Apple captured 92% of the profits accruing to the smartphone industry in Q4 2016. This is even when the company phone sales accounted for only 18% of sales in the market. It may surprise you to know that this is the seventh straight quarter during Apple is raking in over 91% of the entire smartphone industry’s profit. Even in some quarters, the market leader had accrued more than 100% in some cases.

Unfortunately, we cannot understand the parameters used by the analytic firm to draw up their analysis because the report only captured six major smartphone manufacturers and of the six, only four were profitable. Samsung was only able to grab a small piece of the pie (9%) while Sony and Blackberry only got less than 1%. LG and Microsoft completed the list.

Curiously, there are no Chinese phone manufacturers on the list. There is no disputing tht China is one of the largest, fastest growing smartphone markets in the world. Brands such as Huawei, OPPO, Vivo and even Gionee has been making solid performance in phone shipments globally and should perhaps have been on the list.

Read More: Average Selling Price Of Chinese Smartphones Now Closer To Samsung

According to the Secretary General of the Chinese Mobile phone league, Huawei, OPPO and Vivo achieved profitability in 2016 greatly improved over the result of the previous year. Others such as Meizu are expected to achieve profit this year also. But while we accuse the report of being biased, it is instructive to note that despite the growth of the Chinese brand, their profitability is uncomparable to the sort of figure Apple posts due to the pricey nature of their iPhones.

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By the end of the month, three flagship Android phones from Chinese manufacturers will be on the market. Each boasts different state-of-the-art features, with the camera as a major focus for the Vivo Xshot and the Oppo Find 7. OnePlus put a lot into their camera as well, but the new upstart manufacturer decided to focus more on price as a selling feature.

Vivo Xshot was revealed earlier in a major event at the Water Cube, and will be available soon. Oppo Find 7 is taking pre-orders to be shipped on May 29^th, and OnePlus One will be available in the 64GB Blackstone version in late may. For simplicity of comparison we will only be looking at higher-end version of each device.

Chipset, RAM and OS/UI

Oppo Find 7 and Vivo Xshot both use the Qualcomm 801 Snapdragon MSM8974AC chipset, OnePlus One features the higher-end Snapdragon Krait 400 CPU, and all three are quad-core and clock in at 2.5 GHz. Oppo uses their popular ColorOS 1.2 UI on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, OnePlus uses the Android 4.4 KitKat-based CyanogenMod 11S, and Vivo uses their own Funtouch OS UI also running KitKat.

Round: OnePlus

Screen

OnePlus and Vivo have similar 1080×1920 pixel 1080p resolutions. The Vivo Xshot has a 5.2 inch screen, white Oppo and OnePlus feature 5.5 inch screens. One of Oppo’s strongest selling features is its cutting-edge resolution with a staggering 1440×2560 pixel screen providing 538ppi pixel density.

Round: Oppo

Camera

The camera is a focal point of the Vivo Xshot, it is larger than usual and extends past the body of the phone. Vivo had previously hinted to a 24 MP camera, but will be released with the Sony 13MP IMX214 camera featuring the world’s first f/1.8 6p lens and optimal image stabilization. The camera is capable of 4k recording, has dual LED flash and a unique two-stage shutter. OnePlus One also uses the Sony 13MP IMX214 camera featuring a f/2.0 lens and dual LED flash. Oppo had suggested the Find 7 would be able to take 50 MP photos, this is still somewhat true, though the camera itself is the same Sony IMX214 used by Vivo and OnePlus. 50 MP photos are created by using Oppo’s “Super Zoom” feature which rapidly snaps 10 photos and creates a photo that is technically equivalent to a 50 MP photo. Oppo also claims that users can capture video not only in 1080p, but also in 120 fps slow-motion at 720p.

Round: Tie Oppo and Vivo

Battery, Connectivity, and Storage

The Vivo Xshot has a permanent battery which is the weakest of the three at 2,600 mAh. OnePlus also has a permanent 3,100 mAh battery. Oppo has made innovations to their removable 3,000 mAh battery, it features VOOC tech that allows the phone to charge from dead to 75% in just half an hour, miles faster than its average competitor. The phones are evenly matched in connectivity all offering 4G LTE, WiFi and GPS. The Xshot has 32GB storage, and the Oppo comes with 16GB, both are expandable. OnePlus has 16GB and 64GB models, though it’s likely that 16GB versions will be hard to come by.

Round: Oppo

Price

Here is where OnePlus really shines. Their top end 64GB smartphone costs a meager $350, which is amazing considering its top-end features. The Oppo Find 7 will cost around $565 and the Vivo Xshot is asking $580.

Round: OnePlus

Conclusion

The Oppo Find 7 has a lot going for it, namely its vibrant screen, high-tech camera features, and fast charging removable battery. For a person constantly on the go, the rapid charge feature will be extremely useful. It is a cutting-edge phone with a high-end price. For someone who likes to save money and wants an amazing smartphone, the OnePlus is One is an obvious choice. The Vivo Xshot is a powerful phone, but doesn’t stand out beside these two phones, it also has a weaker permanent battery.

Those with expensive taste will enjoy the cutting-edge Oppo Find 7, especially if they are constant travelers. For most, OnePlus One is everything you need and more – at a bargain.

Do you agree with our assessment? Are we missing anything with the Vivo Xshot? Are there other features on the smartphones you are excited about? Let us know!

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Asian chip makers are planning to take advantage of a major restructuring of industry turbulent situation to make money. In the past years time, prudent investment activity has been the Asian chip supply is suppressed, and now Apple and other Asian manufacturers are in the interests of mobile device manufacturers at the expense of seeking more profits, which means that they are breaking the previous forces balanced situation. Including Toshiba and SK Hynix chip manufacturers are preparing, including the use of low-priced Chinese market demand for tablet PCs and smart phones to make a profit situation of substantial growth, China is already the largest worldwide smart phone market.

At the same time, Huawei and other Chinese mobile device manufacturers are also surfaced. From the high-end market, despite the relatively high price of smart phones, compared with the previous rate of growth has slowed, but the memory capacity is growing demand for mobile devices will support the formation of chip sales market.

All of these factors combined since 2011, reduced investment, meaning DRAM (dynamic random access memory) and NAND memory chip prices have started to rise, prompting the bargaining power of chip makers rose to its highest level since a few years.

Securities and Investment Corporation I’M Investment & Securities analyst Hong Sung-ho said: “In recent few years, the market demand is exploding, and the chip maker’s investment activities are suppressed, but now these investments are to chip manufacturers rewarding. ”

Until early last year, so far, chip manufacturers have little bargaining power, because at that time NAND chips for mobile devices only Apple and Samsung that two relatively large-scale buyers. These two global giants are focused on high-end market, and now are faced with the situation of slower growth due to the high-end market, the profitability of this market has been quite close to saturation.

Driven by demand in the Chinese market, the entire smart phone industry is moving in the direction of low-cost handsets shift, helping chip manufacturers to expand their customer base. In addition, Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo Group, China’s smart phone manufacturers are also being made in growth, dominate the market, Samsung and Apple pose a threat. Smartphone market in China, about 70 percent of mobile phones are priced at 1,000 yuan (about 160 U.S. dollars) or less, 10% of the price of 1,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan (about 490 U.S. dollars) between. From the point of view tablet PCs, ultra-low-priced products sold for just less than $ 100, the product sales is also growing.

Korea Investment Corporation HMC Investment Securities analyst Greg Nho said: “Apple’s order size is a major factor of price changes, but now the demand from the Chinese manufacturers have been more than offset this volatility.”

While PC sales have dropped significantly, but so far this year, mainly for PC DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip prices have risen by nearly 90%, while the NAND memory chip market is also facing tight supply situation. Outside of the Chinese market, NAND chip demand is growing, because consumers need expensive mobile devices get more storage capacity to watch high-quality video and listen to high quality music.

“In the past, we will only use mobile devices to take pictures; But today, we are still shooting video with a mobile device, and the resolution is also higher than before.” Macquarie Capital Securities in Tokyo, research director Damian Song (Damian Thong) said. “I think, NAND flash memory market is still a huge opportunity.”

For example, HTC’s flagship smartphone HTC One comes with 64GB of NAND memory chips, which is equivalent to most other high-end smartphone four times. The second-largest NAND chip maker Toshiba said on Tuesday that the company will expand production capacity on the Japanese market, the company will invest nearly 30 billion yen (about $ 300 million). Samsung is currently the world’s largest chip maker, the company is China to invest $ 7 billion market, building a NAND chip factory. Micron Technology is being planned in 2014 to raise the scale of investment that the company is committed to the end of August to complete the acquisition of the bankrupt Japanese chip maker Elpida (Elpida Memory) deal.

However, although part of the chip manufacturers are improving over the years for the first time the scale of investment, but few people believe that the market is moving towards oversupply. According to HMC Investment Securities estimation, this memory chip maker’s total capital spending will decline 2.6% to $ 12.3 billion. Most vendors are bringing investment activities remained at a smaller scale, because they are coming for the 3D chip technology to prepare it for the current planar structure is a kind of a major technological leap.

Macquarie Capital Securities Damian Song pointed out that although the chip manufacturers are planning to build a new production facility, but the demand for NAND chips will continue to outstrip supply. He predicted: “In the next 12 months time, memory chip prices and profitability will remain at a high level.”

In recent years, Samsung has become conservative together, which pushed its competitors desperate to traditional practices vary, competitors are not allowed to practice profitability becomes too high. “By creating a situation of over-supply of the practice in the past Samsung has the ability to suppress the memory chip in the field of competitors.” Investment research firm Sanford C. Bernstein Research analyst Mark Newman (Mark Newman) said. “But today, the price of memory chips down strategies on Samsung phones and tablets formed to help competitors, so Samsung managed to create a very dynamic memory chip supply shortages and high prices of the situation.”

Samsung is the world’s largest NAND chip manufacturers in the market share of about 38%; followed by Toshiba with a share of 28%; Once again SK Hynix with a share of 13%.

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We all know that Apple has been lauched their new iPhone 5 smartphone, they claim that iPhone 5 is the thinnest phone for now, but one of Chinese electronic manufacturer Oppo has been break the record which has built Oppo Finder smartphone as the thinnest phone today.

CNN as a foreign media, reported about that and they show the $400 Chinese smartphone compare to iPhone 5 smartphone with head-to-head comparison, Oppo Finder is look so amazing with only 6.65mm thickness while Apple iPhone 5 has 7.6mm thickness.

Here is the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xNNQhSujeI&feature=player_embedded#t=0s

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf

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