It’s good to see that smartphones are steadily gaining momentum in China. To put this into numbers, volume sales of smartphones in the world’s fastest growing economy grew 12.2% on year to reach 2.53 million units in September 2008.
According to CCID Consulting, Nokia, Motorola and Dopod China benefited the most out of this trend. With 70% of the market, The Finnish giant ruled the Chinese smartphone sales in September, followed by Motorola with 18.9%, Dopod with 5.2%, Samsung with 2.6%, and Sony Ericsson with 1% share.
China-based Coolpad ranked sixth with a 0.8% share, whereas other domestic branded vendors were unable to make significant gains in the segment.
