China's 2022 smartphone shipments the lowest in 10 years - research firm - Reuters

SHANGHAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - China's smartphone income fell 13% year-on-year successful 2022, the largest plunge for the assemblage successful a decennary arsenic consumers spent cautiously, marketplace probe steadfast IDC said connected Sunday.

The full fig of devices shipped was 286 million, down from 329 cardinal successful 2022.

That meant full 2022 income measurement was the lowest since 2013 and the archetypal clip since past that yearly income person dropped beneath 300 million, IDC said successful a report.

Android handset shaper Vivo was the top-selling marque implicit the year, with a marketplace stock of 18.6%. Its full shipments fell 25.1% year-on-year, however.

Honor ranked arsenic the 2nd best-selling brand, with shipments increasing much than 34%, albeit from a debased base.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was the 3rd best-selling telephone marque successful 2022, tied with Oppo.

Apple's wide income fell 4.4% year-on-year, broadly outperforming the marketplace downturn.

In Q4, contempt being the top-selling marque successful the three-month period, year-on-year income for iPhones were inactive down, arsenic proviso concatenation issues caused by idiosyncratic unrest astatine shaper Foxconn's works successful the metropolis of Zhengzhou compounded worse-than expected demand, researchers wrote.

Strict COVID-19 controls successful China, which ramped up successful the outpouring of 2022 crossed respective cities, weighed heavy connected its system which slumped to 1 of its worst levels successful astir fractional a period past year.

The plunge successful smartphone income successful China reflected the sector's show globally. In 2022, planetary smartphone shipments deed 1.2 billion, the lowest since 2013 and a year-on-year autumn of much than 11%, according to IDC.

Reporting by Josh Horwitz; Editing by Robert Birsel

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