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2025.01.30

20:30

Many Shanghai mobile phone stores benefited from government subsidies: sales of one store increased by more than 70%

During the Spring Festival holiday, the "national subsidy" policy attracted more consumers to mobile phone retail stores to buy phones. On January 29, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Huawei flagship store on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai was crowded with people, and a considerable number of users came to replace their phones using the "national subsidy" policy. Not far from this Huawei direct store is a smaller Huawei retail store. On that day, reporters witnessed at least five customers purchasing phones through the "national subsidy" at the same time. On the same day, at the Xiaomi retail store in Shanghai International Trade Plaza, three generations of a family came to Xiaomi to help an elderly person purchase a Xiaomi phone that met the "national subsidy" requirement. Before the Spring Festival, an OPPO retail store in Yangpu District, Shanghai became extremely busy. The number of users who came to the store to consult about purchasing a phone increased significantly, and most of them came to replace their phones for the "national subsidy" policy. The store manager told reporters that they usually sell about 10 machines a day, but now they sell 17 or 18 a day. Most of the extra machines are machines that meet the "national subsidy" requirement, and sales have increased by more than 70%.

2025.01.21

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.

2024.12.19

19:04

The first intelligent security ecosystem collaboration organization was established: Huawei, ByteDance, Ant and other leading companies joined

The first intelligent body security ecosystem collaboration organization in China, the "IIFAA Intelligent Body Trusted Interconnection Working Group", was announced in Beijing. The working group is committed to promoting the industry to jointly formulate relevant security technical specifications for cross-intelligent body interactions to meet the security collaboration challenges brought about by the rapid development of intelligent bodies and jointly build an open, cooperative and win-win intelligent body ecosystem. More than 20 leading technology companies and units such as China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Honor, OPPO, Xiaomi, Huawei, Zhipu, Byte, Alibaba, Ant, JD.com, China Mobile, and Qualcomm became the first members of the working group. The working group was initiated by the IIFAA Internet Trusted Authentication Alliance. It is understood that the alliance was established in 2015 and is committed to trusted identity authentication and other work, with more than 300 member units. Zheng Liang, Secretary-General of the IIFAA Alliance, pointed out that open collaboration is needed between intelligent bodies, and industry norms for security and mutual trust need to be jointly built. This is of vital importance to the long-term healthy development of the industry.

13:34

OPPO acquires stake in Hangzhou Waveform Intelligence

According to the Qichacha APP, Hangzhou Waveform Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. recently underwent industrial and commercial changes. The original shareholders, including BlueRun (Chongqing) SME Development Private Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) and Hangzhou Oufang Ziquan Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership), withdrew, and OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. was added as a shareholder. At the same time, some key personnel withdrew.

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.

2024.11.04

07:41

OPPO, PolyU set up research center to boost AI imaging collaboration

Asia Tech Wire (Nov 4) -- Chinese smartphone maker OPPO and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) on Monday announced the establishment of the "PolyU-OPPO Joint Innovation Research Centre".

2024.10.29

09:42

InterDigital signs license agreement with OPPO to drop all pending litigation

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 29) -- U.S. mobile, video and artificial intelligence technology company InterDigital Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) has signed a license agreement with Chinese smartphone maker OPPO to drop all pending litigation between the two companies.

2024.10.23

10:03

OPPO acquires AI startup AIWaves

Asia Tech Wire (Oct 23) -- Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has acquired Hangzhou-based AI startup AIWaves, according to the latest market news.

2024.07.16

09:03

OPPO denies reports of nationwide layoffs of Huawei-tied employees

Asia Tech Wire (July 16) -- Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has denied reports that it is laying off Huawei-tied employees at its agencies and factories across the country.

2024.04.26

09:35

OPPO halts XR exploration, turns to AI devices, robotics, report says

Asia Tech Wire (Apr 26) -- Chinese smartphone maker OPPO is pausing XR exploration to move to AI devices and robotics, according to Chinese media outlet 36Kr.

2024.02.27

03:41

China's OPPO announces full-on effort on AI

Asia Tech Wire (Feb 27) -- Chinese smartphone maker OPPO announced on Monday that it will launch a full-scale effort in the AI field.

2024.01.08

09:34

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO's overseas sales account for over 60%, exec says

National Business Wire (Jan 8) -- OPPO's overseas sales now account for more than 60% of its sales, an executive of the Chinese smartphone maker said on Monday.

2022.01.12

09:59

OPPO's global patent application exceeds 75,000

Asian Tech Press (Jan 12) -- OPPO revealed that as of December 31, 2021, OPPO has laid out patents in more than 40 countries and regions worldwide, with more than 75,000 global patent applications and more than 34,000 global licenses.

2021.12.14

11:24

China's OPPO unveils MariSilicon X, its first self-developed chip

Asian Tech Press (Dec 14) -- At the OPPO Future Technology Conference, OPPO founder and CEO Chen Mingyong announced the launch of the first self-researched imaging NPU chip MariSilicon X, produced using TSMC's 6nm advanced process. The next generation of OPPO Find X will debut with the MariSilicon X chip, will be released in the first quarter of 2022.

11:16

OPPO released its first smart glasses product OPPO Air Glass

Asian Tech Press (Dec 14) -- China's OPPO released its first smart glasses product, OPPO Air Glass.

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