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2025.02.27

19:13

Lei Jun: In January 2025, Xiaomi's mobile phone market share will rank second in China

At the Xiaomi Mi 15 Ultra and Xiaomi Mi SU7 Ultra new product launch conference today, Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi Group, delivered a speech. He said that Xiaomi Mi 15 is Xiaomi's most successful flagship mobile phone product. He cited data that in January 2025, Xiaomi mobile phones ranked second in China with a market share of 16.8%. The list shows that Huawei ranked first, and vivo, OPPO and Apple ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively.

2025.02.25

21:19

Agency: China's smartphone sales in January reached nearly 29 million units, a year-on-year increase of 17.6%

On February 25, market research firm Counterpoint released a report saying that in order to better take advantage of the wave of phone replacement brought about by subsidies, mobile phone brand manufacturers and distributors have actively lowered the retail prices of some selected models, making this year's Spring Festival a more attractive sales season for consumers. According to Counterpoint's "Monthly Mobile Phone Sales Report", China's smartphone market sales in January were close to 29 million units, a year-on-year increase of 17.6%. Huawei, vivo and Xiaomi occupied the top three positions, together accounting for nearly 53.8% of total sales. In terms of price range, the sales growth in the market between 2,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan was more significant. Counterpoint said that by 2025, the "national subsidy" policy has stimulated the vitality of China's smartphone market. From January 20 to January 26, sales of smartphones in China increased by nearly 65% year-on-year to more than 9.5 million units, indicating that Chinese consumers have made a good initial response to the subsidy policy.

2025.02.24

17:16

Huawei's foldable phone market share has led for five consecutive years, with a market share of 73% in 2025

The latest report from a market research organization shows that China's foldable screen mobile phone shipments will reach 9.17 million units in 2024, a year-on-year surge of 30.8%. Among them, Huawei ranks first with a market share of 51.29%, followed by Honor, vivo, Samsung, and Xiaomi. It is worth noting that Huawei has led the Chinese foldable screen mobile phone market for the fifth consecutive year. Over the past five years, despite the continuous influx of players in the track and fierce competition in technical parameters, Huawei has maintained an average annual market share of 50.3%. According to industry news, Huawei's foldable screen market share has further climbed to 73% since 2025, and technical barriers and ecological construction have continued to expand its leading advantage.

2025.02.13

15:19

vivo announced that its mobile operating system will be deeply integrated with the full-blooded version of DeepSeek

Vivo's mobile phone operating system OriginOS officially announced that vivo will deeply integrate the full-blooded version of DeepSeek, claiming that "the Blue Heart large model and DeepSeek dual-engine drive."

2025.02.12

10:09

China's mobile phone market data for January released: Huawei ranks first in activation volume, Xiaomi has the fastest growth rate

Data from a third-party research organization shows that in January 2025, Chinese manufacturers took the top three positions in terms of activation volume in the Chinese mainland mobile phone market. In terms of activation volume, Huawei had 6.3481 million units, with a market share of 19.3%, Xiaomi had 5.7053 million units, with a market share of 17.34%, and vivo had 5.4817 million units, with a market share of 16.66%. OPPO ranked fourth and Apple ranked fifth. Among the top five manufacturers, Xiaomi grew by 42.49% year-on-year, the fastest growth rate and far ahead of other manufacturers. Apple rarely experienced negative year-on-year growth.

2025.02.11

16:57

Agency: Southeast Asia's smartphone market will grow by 11% in 2024, with OPPO topping the annual list for the first time

Market analysis agency Canalys released a report that in 2024, the Southeast Asian smartphone market rebounded strongly, with manufacturers shipping 96.7 million units, an increase of 11% year-on-year, ending two consecutive years of decline. OPPO led the market for the first time, with 16.9 million units shipped, accounting for 18% of the market share, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Samsung followed closely behind, with 16.6 million units shipped, gaining 17% of the market share. Transsion and Xiaomi tied for third place, each with 16% of the market share, while vivo ranked among the top five with a 13% market share.

2025.01.21

12:39

Agency: China's smartphone sales will drop 3.2% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024

According to Counterpoint's monthly mobile phone sales report, China's smartphone sales fell 3.2% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, making it the only quarter in 2024 to experience a year-on-year decline. In the fourth quarter, Huawei ranked first in market share, followed by Xiaomi and Apple. Faced with fierce competition from Huawei and other Chinese mobile phone brand manufacturers' expansion in the high-end market, Apple ranked third in the fourth quarter of 2024 with a market share of 17.1%. From a full-year perspective, China's smartphone sales increased by 1.5% year-on-year, a rebound from the year-on-year decline of 1.4% in 2023. Vivo ranked first with a market share of 17.8%, followed by Huawei with 16.3%, and Xiaomi ranked third with a market share of 15.7%.

11:55

Agency: India's smartphone shipments will grow 5% in 2024, Apple will enter the top five for the first time in the fourth quarter

According to market research firm Canalys, in the fourth quarter of 2024, smartphone shipments in India fell 4% to 37.2 million units as manufacturers adjusted inventory after the holidays. Vivo ranked first with 7.5 million units shipped and a 20% market share. Xiaomi followed closely in second place with 5.7 million units. Samsung ranked third with 5.4 million units. OPPO (excluding OnePlus) and Apple ranked in the top five, with shipments of 4.2 million and 4 million units, respectively. Driven by active promotions and strong holiday demand, Apple won the fifth place for the first time.

2025.01.14

08:39

Canalys: Global smartphone market grows 3% in Q4 2024

Market analysis agency Canalys released a report pointing out that in the fourth quarter of 2024, the global smartphone market grew by 3% to 330 million units.

2024.12.30

11:25

Vivo's internal MR team has reached 500 people and the prototype experience will be launched in September next year

On December 30, Hu Baishan, executive vice president of vivo, said in an interview that vivo's MR team has reached a scale of 500 people, and it is expected to launch a high-fidelity prototype experience in more than a dozen cities across the country in September 2025. The product has surpassed Apple in some indicators. In terms of commercialization progress, it depends on the matching of the content ecosystem.

11:06

Hu Boshan of vivo: It will take about 5 years for generative AI to become a key driving force for the new incremental market of smartphones

Hu Bashan, executive vice president, chief operating officer and director of vivo Central Research Institute, said that generative AI technology enhances traditional functions, such as AI elimination and AI phone secretary, which is the first stage; secondly, through deep coupling with the OS system with a large model, the mobile phone will be able to recognize user intentions; the third stage requires high computing power for hardware. The current SoC performance is not enough, and its architecture must be close to the server performance requirements. "We have nearly 10,000 GPU accelerator cards." Hu Bashan said, "We expect this stage to arrive at least five years later. At present, we are still in the second stage, which will last for a long time. Therefore, the experience of AI mobile phones is gradual; it is still difficult to become a new incremental driving force for smartphones."

2024.12.16

11:22

Dixon to form joint venture with Vivo India

On December 16, Dixon Technologies of India issued a statement saying that it had signed a binding term sheet with Vivo Mobile India to establish a joint venture in India as an original equipment manufacturer of electronic devices including smartphones. Dixon will hold a 51% stake in the joint venture, while Vivo will hold the remaining shares. The factory will handle some of Vivo India's OEM smartphone orders and may also produce electronic products for other brands.

2024.12.05

16:34

Counterpoint: Xiaomi ranks third in global smartphone shipments in Q3, Pro series contributes half of iPhone sales

Counterpoint today released a report on smartphone data for each region in Q3 2024, saying that the global smartphone market grew 2% year-on-year in the quarter, with shipments reaching 307 million units. Specifically, the following characteristics are presented: global smartphone revenue grew 10% year-on-year, and the average selling price grew 7%. Both revenue and average selling price hit record highs. Samsung shipments continued to lead the market, accounting for 19% of sales. Apple led in revenue and set its highest record for third-quarter shipments, revenue and average selling price. Xiaomi ranked third, with revenue growth exceeding the growth rate of shipments. OPPO ranked fourth. vivo had the fastest year-on-year growth among the top five mobile phone brand manufacturers. The world's best-selling smartphone in the quarter was the iPhone 15, followed by the iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 15 Pro. In the third quarter, the iPhone Pro series contributed half of the total iPhone sales. In the third quarter of 2024, the top 10 models accounted for 19% of the global smartphone market sales.

2024.06.19

09:58

Vivo India may cede controlling stake to Tata Group

Asia Tech Wire (June 19) -- Chinese smartphone maker vivo's Indian unit is in talks with India's Tata Group about acquiring a majority stake and setting up a joint venture, according to multiple media reports.

2024.05.27

02:52

Vivo to launch next-generation silicon-carbon battery

Asia Tech Wire (May 27) -- Chinese smartphone maker vivo will soon launch a Blue Ocean battery with a new generation of silicon-carbon anode material, the latest news said.

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