China Smartphone Market

China's cell phone exports in the first 2 months amounted to RMB 149.59 billion ($22.9 billion), up 49.2% year-on-year, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs of China on March 7.

This was mainly due to the sanctioned Huawei phones and the release of the OPPO Reno5 series of phones.

Huawei (including Honor) shipped 18.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, with its market share falling to 22 percent from 41 percent in the third quarter, the data showed.

Despite media reports of extreme shortages of mobile phone chips, two Chinese phone makers said on March 1 that they are not currently experiencing shortages of the core component.

Smartphone makers in China, the largest market for semiconductor chip usage, are plagued by chip supply shortages.

Due to Covid-19, China's cell phone shipments were only 20.81 million units in January last year and fell to 6.34 million units in the following month.

Huawei shipped as many as 125 million units in China in 2020, taking first place with a 38.3% share, according to IDC.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi's shipments rose 32% year-on-year to 43.3 million units in the fourth quarter, according to IDC.

In December, 18.20 million 5G phones were shipped in the Chinese market, accounting for 68.4 percent of cell phone shipments in the same period.

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has been planning tablet computer and laptop products, which are expected to be launched next year to seize the market, well-known Weibo digital blogger @数码闲聊站 said today.