MIIT released "China mobile device white paper 2012".

Chinese government MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China)  released "China mobile device white paper 2012", but according to this report, total shipment number of mobile device in China was 455 million units in 2011.

In 2005, the shipment number of mobile device was 129 million units, so it was increased more than 300 million units in last 6 years.


And the shipment number of smart mobile device(*that means smart phone and tablet PC) in China was 117.74 million units in 2011, and the breakdown of mobile smart device shipment number by mobile OS as of Q4,2011 were as follows:

Android  73.99% ; Symbian  12.53% ; iOS  10.67% ; Windows Phone  0.34% ; RIM  0.03%

In the end, this is a ratio of mobile device shipment by Chinese company and foreign company.

In 2011, Chinese company has been occupied 71.68% share of mobile device shipment, and its number was over than 300 million units.


And this report also said we have to pay attentions the further growth of smart mobile device and "Nokia + Windows phone" can catch-up in Chinese market or not.


Original article => CATR

The comparison of smartphone sales quantity ratio in China and Japan.

According to the report by China Market Monitor, the smartphone sales quantity in CHina was 70 million units in 2011. Its ratio of sales quantity was 32% of the whole mobile phone market, and lower 1,000 RMB smartphone accounted for 54% of 70 million units.

And this report also said smartphone sales quantity is estimated 140 million units in 2012.


On the other hand, according to the report by MMRI, the smartphone sales quantity in Japan was 23.4 million units in 2011.

Its ratio of sales quantity was 55.8% of the whole mobile phone market, and its sales quantity is estimated 27.9 million in 2012.


Japan have a lead to China twice in the ratio of smartphone sales quantity, but conversely China have a lead to Japan more than 6 times in the sales quantity of smartphone...


Original article => 1688.com, WirelessWire News

Tencent prepare own Android 4.0 based custom ROM.

According to the news, Tencent prepare own Android 4.0 based custom ROM for expanding their QQ or Weibo users.

Its product page is here, but now is a phase of internal beta, so we cannot access this site...


Before Tencent released "QQ smartphone" with Chinatelecom or HTC, but there are rumors that its sales is not so good... So they may think it's better that develop customized OS to deliver popular Android devices.

Now its details don't become clear, so if its more information will be available, I will update this article :)

The summery report of Chinese mobile industry by Baidu.

Chinese internet giants Baidu published the report written about the summary Chinese mobile industry.

According to this report, a PV ranking by each area as of Q4,2011 is as follwing:

#1 Guangdong  14.6%
#2 Jaingsu  7.5%
#3 Shangdong   5.3%

Beijing is a 7th position, and Shanghai is a 11th position.


And market share by each carrier is as followeing:

China Mobile has dominated Chinese whole mobile market, they have 71.6% share in it. And China Telecom has 13.6% market share, and China Unicom has 14.9% market share in it.

But focusing to Android and iOS user, the market share of 3 carriers are antagonism,  China Mobile have 43.6% market share, China Telecom have 29.7% market share, and China Unicom have 26.6% market share.


Finally, I would like to pick up a interesting data.

It's a ratio of each communication system(2G, 3G, WiFi), but 2G communication occupied whole mobile market(89.2%).

But it's a natural things, because Chinese mobile user already reached 1 billion people, but 3G user is still only 0.1 million as of Q4,2011.

But focusing to Android and iOS users, there are different trends that 3 pieces of communication style is antagonism.


In China, it's expected to start LTE experimental service in 2012. So, we have to pay attention for each carrier think much of 3G or LTE in this year...



Original article => Baidu mobile open platform

The report the number of apps by each App Market in China.

Enfodesk published that a report the number of apps by each App Market in China.

*Blue line = on December , Orange line = on November, Green line = v.s. last month


According to this report,  App market that have the most apps in China was Apple's App store, and the second position was Google's Android Market.


#3 and its later was as following:

#3   91 mobile assistant
#4   189 store by China Telecom
#5   Mobile Market by China Mobile
#6   Samsung Apps
#7   Gfan Market
#8   Anzhi Market
#9   AppChina
#10  3G software
#11  Wo store by China Unicom
#12  Nokia Ovi
#13  Le store by Lenovo


And the ratio of paid and free apps by each market are as following:

*Blue Line is free Apps, and yellow line is paid Apps.


The ratio of free apps was very high in Android Market and other related Android App market, but in Carrier's market such as Mobile Market and Wo store have high ratio of paid apps.


As I reported before, Android is the most popular smart phone OS in China. But for considering the success of business, we have to find the other ways of selling Apps.



Original article => Eguan

In Chinese smart phone market, the shipment share of Android device reached about 70% as of Q4'11.

According to the report by Enfodesk, the shipment share of Android device reached 68.4% in Chinese smart phone market as of Q4,11.

As of Q1'11, Android smart phone is the second position in Chinese market, but as of Q4'11 it jumped to the top position, and had a lead of triple score for Symbian.

And from the point of view annual shipment market, its share of Android smart phone was 51.1%.


The reason of this result is very simple, because 3 big carriers in China all was driving force to sell Android device, even if China Unicom who are selling iPhone did that.

And a lot of mobile device company, such as Motolora, HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and so on, was also driving force to sell Android device in China.


2days ago, China Telecom formally announced selling iPhone from March 9,  but we have to pay attention whether its impact will become big or not.



Original article => Enfodesk