More than 44 percent of the world's total
Beancounters working for Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that Chinese vendors shipped 145.9 million smartphones globally in total during the second quarter of 2016.
This is a rise of 13 percent on the last quarter and 22.9 percent on year. IT means that 44.1 percent of the global total came from Chinese vendors.
They were not only selling to the huge Chinese market either. More than 58.6 million smartphones were shipped in overseas markets, increasing 20.7 percent on quarter and 17.7 percent on year.
Huawei Technologies was the largest vendor accounting for 18.8 percent of shipments, followed by Oppo at 11.5 percent, Vivo 9 percent, Xiaomi Technology 9 percent, TCL 5.3 percent ZTE 5.3 percent , Lenovo 4.7 percent , GiONEE 4.5 percent, Meizu 2.5 percent and Coolpad 2.1 percent.
Huawei accounted for 21.8 per cent of overseas shipments, TCL 11.3 per cent, ZTE 10.1per cent , Lenovo 8.2per cent, Oppo 6.per cent, Xiaomi 3.8 per cent, GiONEE 3.2 per cent and Vivo 2.4 per cent.
Overseas shipments made up 84.8 percent of TCL's total shipments, and the proportions were 75.7 percent for ZTE, 70.1 percent for Lenovo and 46.6 percent for Huawei.
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