According to the data published by CAICT, for the whole year of 2018, the sales volume of smart phones of Chinese market was 390 million, decreased by 15.5% compared with that of the previous year, accounting for 94.1% of the total sales volume of the same time. Among which, the Android phones took up 89.3% of the smart phones, and the sales volume of top 10 smart phone suppliers accounted for 93%, which increased by 7.9% to 2017
Comparing to year 2017, the decline of new launched models was obvious. There are 764 new models launched for the whole year 2018, decreased by 27.5% to the previous year, among which included 171 models of 2G phones, 3 models of 3G phones and 590 models of 4G phones.