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Investing.com -- Shipments of foreign-branded smartphones, including those from Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), experienced a 21% year-on-year decrease in China in January.
The data was released on Monday by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a government-affiliated research firm.
According to the CAICT’s data, the number of foreign-branded phones shipped in China fell to 4.398 million units in January from 5.542 million units in the same month a year earlier.
Apple Inc, being the largest foreign phone maker in China’s smartphone market, has a significant influence on the overall foreign-branded phone shipments in the country.
In addition to the drop in foreign-branded phone shipments, the CAICT data also showed a decline in overall phone sales in China. In January, sales decreased by 14.3% to 27.24 million units.
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