Foreign-branded smartphone shipments in China see slight rise in December

Published 14/02/2025, 10:30
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Investing.com -- Shipments of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s iPhone, experienced a slight increase in China in December, according to recent data.

The statistics, released by a government-affiliated research firm, indicated a 0.6% rise year-on-year.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) provided the data, which was used to calculate the increase.

The calculations revealed that the number of foreign-branded phones shipped in China rose to 3.74 million units in December. This is a slight increase from the 3.72 million units shipped during the same period a year earlier.

In addition to the increase in foreign-branded smartphone shipments, overall phone sales in China also saw a surge.

The CAICT data indicated a 22.1% increase in overall phone sales, with the total units sold amounting to 34.53 million in December.

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