Friday, November 15, 2013

China drives smartphone growth - and low prices - as Android dominates

The number of smartphone owners keeps increasing - and many are in China, buying low-end "Android" phones which don't run Google services, according to new data published by the research companies Gartner and IDC.
Gartner has for the first time lifted the lid on the gigantic growth in sales of Android phones which don't run Google services in China - so-called "AOSP" (Android Open Source Platform) handsets, which use local app stores and do not count towards "activations" measured by Google, nor hook into Google services.



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