Tech analyst: Chinese smartphone market-share breakdown looks like global PC market

Tech analyst: Chinese smartphone market-share breakdown looks like global PC marketIn a recently-released video, senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker has voiced his opinion about the new Strategy Analytics' data which underscores an evident boom in the smartphone market in China.

The video chiefly has Bleeker looking at the recent statistics from Strategy Analytics which have Samsung placed at the top spot - with a 17.7 percent share - among the smartphone manufacturers operating in the Chinese market. Lenovo and Apple follow Samsung with a 13.2 percent and 11 percent share respectively. The figures show Huawei and Coolpad holding a less than 10 percent share in the Chinese market.

With China's smartphone market having now emerged as the world's biggest smartphone market, a DigiTimes Research report has revealed that the country accounted for 189 million out of a total of 700 million smartphones shipments in 2012.

In the video, Bleeker the market-share breakdown in the Chinese smartphone market is fairly akin to that in the worldwide PC market, without any one particular manufacturer exerting outsized influence; even though the US smartphone market shows a heavy tilt towards Samsung and Apple.

According to Bleeker, the fact that there are a number of competitive sub-$150 range Android Chinese smartphones from smaller manufacturers implies that the smartphone market in China, rather than being dominated by any one big player, will apparently continue to look like the PC market in the US.