www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Technology

Entering era of smarter homes

By GAO YUAN (China Daily) Updated: 2015-01-28 10:14

Chinese smartphone makers set for battle royal after defeating most of the international giants

The slowing growth in handset sales is unlikely to diminish overall buoyancy in the market this year, as local players, big and small, square up for what could be a battle royal, after effectively defeating the previously dominant overseas giants on the home front.

Under siege for more than a year now, embattled Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, especially, is set to lose its market lead to at least two Chinese brands, Xiaomi Corp and Lenovo Group Ltd.

Analysts said that local manufacturers now account for more than 70 percent of Chinese sales, leaving diminished market shares for Apple Inc and Samsung in the high-end sector.

"The top three makers are responsible for only 40 percent of market share, leaving a significant chunk of the market open to the rest," said Tian Zheng, business solutions group vice-president at Analysys International, a research firm.

"There are opportunities everywhere for local manufacturers."

Although the growth rate of smartphone sales-which have been racing ahead at a huge double-digit rate for years-is now stalling significantly, China still remains a hot market for local vendors.

And the major players, said Gene Cao, senior analyst at industry consultancy Forrester Research Inc, are set to focus squarely on building ecosystems around what many expect to be the next billion dollar market in China: the smart-home sector.

A strong presence in the handset market will accelerate a company's ability to compete in the "smart-home era", he said.

Some of the next generation are already repositioning themselves for the fight ahead.

Web security company Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd, for instance, has partnered up with budget phonemaker Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co Ltd to create a larger entity capable of launching a serious challenge.

Leshi Internet Information & Technology (Beijing) Co, an online video company, is also eying the market by developing a smartphone operating system that can, among other things, control TV sets from afar.

This intensifying competition among smaller companies has been forcing many niche players to come up with features, such as high-definition camera and extra-long battery life, which can help them target specific buyers instead of relying just on low prices.

The growing interest in newer operators was clearly illustrated last month at a leading tech forum, the "GeekPark", popular with startup entrepreneurs, when Luo Yonghao, the founder of a two-year-old smartphone brand Smartisan Digital Co Ltd, was asked to deliver the closing speech-an honor previously reserved for figures such as Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and Google Inc chairman Eric Schmidt.

Smartisan has only delivered one generation of smartphone so far, and its shipments are tiny compared to Xiaomi or Lenovo-but the company's heavily modified Android system is already gaining a huge following, by featuring, for instance, quicker photo functions and button positions more comfortable for left-handed users. Smartisan is already poised to lease its OS using rights to other makers.

China, meanwhile, remains the world's largest maker of smartphones and that is unlikely ever to be challenged.

More than 453 million made-in-China mobile devices were sold in 2014, accounting for almost 40 percent of global shipments, according to TrendForce Corp, an electronics supply chain researcher.

Last year Lenovo completed the $2.9 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google Inc which boosted its total shipments to more than 90 million units, a doubling in size, TrendForce said.

China is now home to six of the world's top 10 smartphone brands in terms of sales.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产精品久久久久久久久免费观看 | 国内自拍第100页 | 久久久久日韩精品无 | 男人女人做性全程视视频 | 国产午夜亚洲精品 | 免费国产午夜高清在线视频 | 国产免费久久 | 中文字幕日韩精品有码视频 | 综合久久久| 三级色网站 | 久青草视频在线 | 国产成人资源 | 亚洲免费视频在线观看 | 国产综合在线观看视频 | 亚欧在线视频 | 亚洲国产二区三区久久 | 国语精品视频在线观看不卡 | 国产自产v一区二区三区c | 在线观看日韩 | 91.久久 | 老少配性xxxxxx | 欧美大片国产在线永久播放 | 国产一区二区在线视频 | 成人免费久久精品国产片久久影院 | 最新国产三级久久 | 米奇777色狠狠8888影视 | 中文字幕国产亚洲 | 亚洲男人天堂 | 国产亚洲福利精品一区二区 | 99精品这里只有精品高清视频 | 久热香蕉精品视频在线播放 | 性做久久久久久久免费观看 | 欧美亚洲国产片在线观看 | 国产毛片精品 | 97青娱国产盛宴精品视频 | 精品一区二区三区免费爱 | 精品欧美亚洲韩国日本久久 | 国产农村乱子伦精品视频 | 经典日韩 | 成人欧美日韩视频一区 | 蝴蝶成人世界第八影院 |