Research and Markets: Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China’s Smartphone Market to a Projected 73.6 Million Units or 31.5% of Total Handsets by 2013
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4ee770/lower_barriers_to) has announced the addition of the “Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China’s Smartphone Market” report to their offering.
Smartphone shipments in China grew 30% to 23.6 million in 2008 despite China’s uncertain economy and overall stagnation in handset shipment growth. Mobile Internet applications, GPS, and multimedia functionality have been the most important drivers of this growth.
In-Stat estimates that the compound annual growth rate of China’s smartphone market will be 25% throughout the period 2009 to 2013 and that the next wave of smartphone market growth will be driven by lowered barriers-to-entry on both the OS and chipset platform solution sides. This report examines the changing dynamics of China’s smartphone OS and chipset platform markets and analyzes how these will drive the smartphone market in coming years. Details of other significant drivers are also provided.
This report includes:
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Key Topics Covered:
Introduction
Definitions
Overview
Smartphone Value Chain Analysis
Drivers and Barriers
Market Forecasts
Methodology
List of Table
List of Figures
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