{"id":38775,"date":"2011-11-24T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38775"},"modified":"2011-11-24T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T07:27:02","slug":"china-becomes-largest-smartphone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/38775-china-becomes-largest-smartphone-market.html","title":{"rendered":"China becomes largest smartphone market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to research from <a title=\"Strategy Analytics\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/376724-Strategy-Analytics\">Strategy Analytics<\/a>, China has overtaken the United States to become the world\u2019s largest smartphone market by volume.<\/p>\n<p>China sold 23.9 million smartphone units in Q3 2011, marginally ahead of the 23.3 million units sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s smartphone shipments also grew by 58 percent when compared with Q2 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s rapid growth has been driven by an increasing availability of smartphones in retail channels, aggressive subsidizing by operators of high-end models like the <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> iPhone, and an emerging wave of low-cost <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> models from local Chinese brands such as <a title=\"ZTE Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367636-ZTE-Corporation\">ZTE<\/a>,\u201d according to <a title=\"Tom Kang\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384347-Tom-Kang\">Tom Kang<\/a>, a director at Strategy Analytcs.<\/p>\n<p>The research also named the two top vendors in each market, showing that <a title=\"HTC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a> and Apple dominate the U.S market with 24 percent and 20.6 percent respectively. <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> and <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a> were the winners in the Chinese market, accounting for 28.5 percent and 17.6 percent respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Marketwatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/strategy-analytics-china-overtakes-united-states-as-worlds-largest-smartphone-market-in-q3-2011-2011-11-23\" target=\"_blank\">Marketwatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has overtaken the U.S. in Q3 2011 to become the world\u2019s largest smartphone market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,6917,403,653,645,6200,6915,895],"class_list":["post-38775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-apple-iphome","tag-htc","tag-nokia","tag-samsung","tag-strategy-analytics","tag-tom-kang","tag-zte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38777,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions\/38777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}