China Smartphones news and trends

Facebook Earnings Sizzle While Platform Usage Fizzles
Sizzle/Fizzle // February 02, 2018

What sizzles and fizzles at the same time? Dry ice, perhaps? If so, then Facebook was the dry ice of corporations this week, reporting a sizzling 47 percent jump in quarterly revenue year-over-year – while at the same time fizzling among users, who are spending...

Chinese Smartphone Market Declines For First Time
Retail // January 29, 2018

The smartphone market declined for the first time ever in 2017, with shipments dropping 4 percent year-over-year, according to market research firm Canalys. The BBC, citing data from Canalys, reported that the decline marks the end of an eight-year period of growth in China’s smartphone...

iPhone 7 Sells Big In China
Apple // January 16, 2018

New data shows that Apple’s iPhone 7 was the only foreign model to make it on China’s list of top 10 best-selling handsets for 2017. According to CNBC, data from Counterpoint Research shows that the iPhone 7 Plus accounted for 2.8 percent of all smartphone...

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JPMC Cuts Apple iPhone X Estimates

March 05, 2018
JPMorgan slashed its production estimates on Apple’s iPhone X for the first and second quarters, and also took the opportunity to lower estimates for units shipped in the second quarter. According to a report in Seeking Alpha, the Wall Street firm now expects Apple’s iPhone production to be at 15 million units in the first quarter, […]

Chinese Smartphone Market Declines For First Time

January 29, 2018
The smartphone market declined for the first time ever in 2017, with shipments dropping 4 percent year-over-year, according to market research firm Canalys. The BBC, citing data from Canalys, reported...

iPhone 7 Sells Big In China

January 16, 2018
New data shows that Apple’s iPhone 7 was the only foreign model to make it on China’s list of top 10 best-selling handsets for 2017. According to CNBC, data from...