Android continue to increase their market share in China. Their market share exceeded 90% in Chinese smartphone market in the third quarter.

According to the recent report by Eguan, the smartphone market share in China of Android exceeded 90% in the third quarter.

In the second quarter, the market share of Android was 82.8%, hence it follows that their market share increased 7.3% compared to the second quarter.

iOS and Symbian both decreased their market share, both had 6.0% market share in the second quarter, but iOS decreased to 4.2%, and Symbian decreased to 2.4% in the third quarter.


According to this report, the sales amount of smartphone in China was 49.17 million units in the third quarter, the sales rate of smartphone continue to increase in the third quarter too.

*Yellow colored graph is the sales rate of smartphone, and blue colored graph is non-smartphone one.


More and more mobile vendors entered Chinese smartphone market, Android and related business in China will be more and more brisk in future.



Source => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

Android already dominate 80% of China's smartphone market.

According to the report by Eguan, the market share of Android was 82.8% in China's smartphone market in the second quarter.

The market share of Android in the first quarter was 76.7%, so that is to say it increased 6.1% in a quarter.

Recently MIIT also said that the market share of Android was nearly 80% in China's smartphone market in the first half of the year, so it's no doubt that Android already dominate 80% of China's smartphone market now.

And according to MIIT, the number of smartphone shipments was nearly 100 million units in the first half of the year, and it increased 197% over last year.

On the other hand, Symbian still continue to decrease their market share, and it had finally fallen to 6.0%. The decline of Symbian is equivalent to the decline of Nokia, but they already changed direction to the cooperation with Windows Phone.

Yesterday, Nokia released Lumia 920 that is equipped with Windows 8, but the market share of Windows Phone( include Windows Mobile) was also small at this stage in China.

So we have to keep attentions whether this new mobile phone will get the popularity or not in future.

Source => Eguan, ChinaByte

Smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

According to the report by iimedia, smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

This number was increasing 13.0% compared to the previous period, and they also said mobile internet users in China was 372 million people.

And the market share of each operating system was as follows:

Android had 55.4% market share, so it also can be said about 140 million Android smartphone devices are floating around in China. And this report also said that there are more 2,000 type of Android devices in Chinese market now.

Well, Symbian had 25.6% market share , iOS had 12.4%, Windows had 2.4%, and they can catch-up Android in the future, or Android continue to run the top share as ever, or new mobile OS will come to fore...

It cannot take our eyes off in the future too.

Original article => iimedia

Android smartphone market share in China increased to 76.7% in the first quarter.

According to the report by Eguan, Android smartphone market share in China increased to 76.7% in the first quarter.

Android smartphone market share in Q4,2011 was 68.4%, so that is to say Android market share increased 8.4% in a quarter. On the other hand, Symbian smartphone market share also decreased, and its market share was 11.8% in the first quarter.

Except iOS(that is to say 'iPhone'), other OS smartphone all was decreasing their market share...


It may be said that Android is the only winner in China at this stage.


Microsoft will release Windows 8 soon, and some vendor also will release based HTML 5 OS such as Mozilla. I'm interested in whether they can change the power balance of smartphone market in China or Android continue to be the only winner... :)



Original article => Eguan

The summary of mobile security market in China as of Q1,2012.

iiMedia Research published the summary of mobile security market in China as of Q1,2011 as follows.

1. Market share of mobile security company

#1  360   54.6%

#2  QQ    22.9%

#3  Netqin    11.4%

#4  Kingsoft   2.7%

#5  Kaspersky 2.1%

#6  Rising   1.5%

Other   4.5%





2. The number of using mobile security products user and its active users

Total users : 128 million people
Active users : 83.3 million people



3. The number of newly virus for Symbian and Android

Colored blue : Symbian


Colored red : Android










As of Q1,2012, the number of newly virus for Android was 1,572 pieces, and Symbian's was 967 pieces.

Compared to Q1,2011, the number of Symbian's was almost even, but Android's increased 5 times. It's reason why as I reported before, the shipment number of Android rapidly increased from the second half on 2011, so the number of newly virus also increased...



4. The type of virus on Symbian and Android

Symbian                                                    Android
#1   Consumption of resources  41.4%            Fee deduction   68.4%
#2   System crush  31.2%                            Stolen private info  14.3%
#3   Fee deduction  22.1%                            System crush    7.1%
#4   Other                                                Consumption of resources  41.4%


In China, the number of mobile internet user was about 360 million people in the end of 2011, and expected it will be about 550 million people in the end of 2014.

Threat of virus will be increasing more and more in the future, so mobile users have to prepare for looking before they leap...



Original article => 199IT

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