Samsung still occupied the top 5 mobile devices in China market in October 2013. HTC jumped to sixth with T328, which was the biggest surprise. HTC One ranked the 18th, climbing up a little bit. Xiaomi had four types of mobile devices in top 15, continuing its excellent performance in China market.
Besides, MX2, Google Nexus 7, Huawei C8813 were still hot mobile devices in top 20 list.
]]>Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report showed that mobile manufacturers launched a series of big screen smartphones in the past 12 months. Samsung Galaxy and Note, HTC One, Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi all launched 4-inch smartphone. By the end of June, more than half of smartphone users owned 3 to 3.9 inches smartphones, but 4-4.5 inches smartphones market share was twice of last year, growing from 12.5% to 29.1%. Big screen smartphone might become the market dominant.
In Q2, Android smartphones market share by sales volume dropped to 67.8%, with a QoQ decrease of 4.1%. Windows phone market share by sales volume increased from 1.8% in Q1 to 4.9% in Q2. iPhone occupied about 25% market share by sales volume.
By the end of June 2013, Android dominated smartphone with 56% market share, with 41% increase compared to last year. Symbian was the biggest loser, with only 20.3% market share and 14.3% less than last year. According to Kantar Worldpanel, if iphone launch cheaper smartphones, it will probably become the second largest mobile operating system.
iPhone 4 and 4s market share by sales volume reached 58.2%, while iPhone 5 only occupied one third of iPhone total sales.
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