Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China's Smartphone Market Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China's Smartphone Market
Abstract Smartphone shipments in China grew 30% to 23.6 million in 2008 despite China's uncertain economy and overall stagnation in handset shipment growth. Mobile Internet applications, GPS, and multimedia functionality have been the most important drivers of this growth.
In-Stat estimates that the compound annual growth rate of China's smartphone market will be 25% throughout the period 2009 to 2013 and that the next wave of smartphone market growth will be driven by lowered barriers-to-entry on both the OS and chipset platform solution sides. This report examines the changing dynamics of China's smartphone OS and chipset platform markets and analyzes how these will drive the smartphone market in coming years. Details of other significant drivers are also provided.
Product Number: IN0904538CWW Service: China Wireless Publication Date: October 2009 Number of Pages: 27 Analyst: Alex Liu Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars Read Press Release
