Telecommunication News
- Smartphone market seen surging
Date: 10-Oct-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
FALLING prices are expected to boost sales of smartphones in China more than seven-fold by 2011, a study by research firm Gartner showed yesterday.
China and India are the largest growth markets for cellphone vendors like Nokia , Samsung Electronics or Sony Ericsson, but so far the demand has focused on cheap models. Gartner expects this to change in China - it forecasts that more than 85 million smartphones will be sold in China in 2011, compared with 11.6 million in 2006. Gartner said the most popular smartphones in China are cheaper, 'second-best?models that have an attractive, slim design, handwriting recognition, music player and loudspeakers as standard features, with a few local extra features.
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