iSuppli: arrival of the iPhone in China will accelerate the country’s smartphone market
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Sep 11, 2009 at 7:56am
The iSuppli research group says that the arrival of Apple’s iPhone in China in the fourth quarter will accelerate the smartphone market in the country in 2010 and 2011.
When China Unicom starts selling the iPhone, the wireless service provider will “sound the starting gun for China’s smartphone market,” Tina Teng, analyst for iSuppli, said.
The research group says that smartphone shipments in China next year will rise by 42.5% to each 30.2 million units from 21.2 million units this year, iSuppli predicts. That’s the largest growth rate of any country tracked by the research firm.
Worldwide factory shipments of smartphone shipments are expected to rise to 235.6 million units in 2010, up 27.9 percent from 184.2 million in 2009. Thats the fastest growth rate of any country tracked by iSuppli.
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