42.1 million GSM and CDMA handsets were sold in the China market in the first quarter of 2008. Nokia, Samsung and Motorola were the top-three vendors with a combined market share of 60.1%, according to China-based consulting company Analysys International.
For CDMA models alone, Samsung was the largest vendor with a market share of 28.9%, followed by China-based Huawei Technologies with 25% and LG Electronics with 14.2%, Analysys indicated.
China market: Handset sales volume, 1Q08
|
|
Amount (units m)
|
Q/Q
|
Y/Y
|
GSM
|
39.26
|
6.0%
|
12.8%
|
CDMA
|
2.84
|
(2.7%)
|
35.9%
|
Aggregate
|
42.10
|
5.4%
|
14.1%
|
Source: Analysys, compiled by Digitimes, July 2008
China market: Top handset vendors by sales volume, 1Q08
|
Nokia
|
37.2%
|
Samsung
|
14.3%
|
Motorola
|
8.6%
|
K-Touch (Chinese)
|
4.9%
|
Lenovo (Chinese)
|
4.0%
|
Sony Ericsson
|
3.1%
|
Amoi (Chinese)
|
2.7%
|
LG Electronics
|
2.6%
|
Ningbo Bird (Chinese)
|
2.5%
|
GiONEE (Chinese)
|
2.0%
|
Konka (Chinese)
|
1.4%
|
Haier (Chinese)
|
1.4%
|
|
