{"id":169881,"date":"2014-03-05T21:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=169881"},"modified":"2014-03-05T21:40:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T05:40:41","slug":"endless-china-smartphone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/endless-china-smartphone-market\/","title":{"rendered":"About That Endless China Smartphone Market&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/apple-signals-plans-broaden-china-mobile-alliance\/\">Apple plans to deepen its alliance with China&#8217;s (and by extension the world&#8217;s) biggest telecom carrier<\/a> and after domestic maker<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/xiaomi-sales-doubled-2013-still-enough\/\"> Xiaomi reported 19 million phone sales last year<\/a>, the Wall Street Journal reports a forecasted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/03\/05\/idc-china-smartphone-growth-to-slow\/\"><strong>slowdown in China&#8217;s smartphone market growth<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past two years, smartphone shipments in China has nearly quadrupled, making the country\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304173704579261860481395236\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">the world\u2019s largest smartphone market.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the rate of annual growth in the Chinese market is expected slow, to about 10% next year, according to forecasts by research firm IDC.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] China has nearly 1 billion mobile phone users and roughly 40% of them are currently using smartphones, according to IDC. Doesn\u2019t that mean hundreds of millions of people currently using traditional feature phones are all ready to switch to smartphones soon?<\/p>\n<p>A complete migration to smartphones may not happen so easily. In China, most of the people who can comfortably afford smartphones have already bought them, and it may take longer for the rest of the population to make the same transition, Kaur says.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, smartphone prices in China have declined a lot and it\u2019s possible to buy one for less than $50. But some people still won\u2019t be able to afford it because switching to smartphones usually results in heftier monthly bills from telecom carriers, says Jingwen Wang, an analyst at research firm Canalys. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/03\/05\/idc-china-smartphone-growth-to-slow\/\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In marginally related news, Tech in Asia reports &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinasia.com\/weibo-games-texting-china-national-congress-imposes-grade-school-smartphone-rules-party-members\/\">grade school smartphone rules<\/a>&#8221; in effect at China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/npc-2014\/\">National People&#8217;s Congress<\/a>, which kicked off yesterday in Beijing: no texting, no games, no live-tweeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Apple plans to deepen its alliance with China&#8217;s (and by extension the world&#8217;s) biggest telecom carrier and after domestic maker Xiaomi reported 19 million phone sales last year, the Wall Street Journal reports a forecasted\u00a0slowdown in China&#8217;s smartphone market growth: Over the past two years, smartphone shipments in China 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