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Huawei has signed a licensing deal for key technologies with rival smartphone maker Oppo as U.S. sanctions continue to tank the Chinese tech and telecom giant's business — reports Nikkei Asia. A series of trade sanctions have left Huawei unable to manufacture advanced smartphones with 5G capabilities and cut the company off from some of...

Four Chinese handset makers that together account for an estimated 40 percent of global mobile device shipments are building a platform meant to rival Google Play. According to a new report from Reuters, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo have announced that they're linking up to create a platform on which developers around the world will be...

The iPhone 8, or whatever it ends up being called, expected to pack more features into space freed up by a thinner display, may hold the key to reviving Apple's fortunes in a Chinese market where fast-growing local rivals have crowded the American giant out. According to a new report from Bloomberg, local Chinese competitors like Huawei, Oppo,...

Apple is aligning itself more closely with the Chinese government as the tech company's share in the world's largest smartphone market slips to local competition and it becomes more reliant on pushing services that require the government's approval. According to a new report from Reuters, "A flurry of recent action by Cupertino-based Apple underlines its push...

The businessman behind two of China’s most successful smartphone brands, Oppo and Vivo, says Apple’s failure to adapt to local competition allowed his brands to overtake the US company in the world’s largest smartphone market last year. Image via Bloomberg Duan Yongping, chairman and founder BBK Electronics Corporation, told Bloomberg on Monday that while Apple...

According to a new report from Canalys, Apple has dropped to fifth place in the Chinese smartphone market behind domestic vendors Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. For the full year of 2016, China reached 476.5 million smartphone units shipped, an 11.4% increase over the previous year. Shipments in the fourth quarter were 131.6 million, the highest...

While Apple did repeatedly attempt to save its faltering sales in China, the company hasn’t been able to turn things around in the country. According to data from a latest IDC report, Apple was pipped by local phone manufacturers Oppo, Huawei and Vivo, thus, causing its shipments to decline by 23.2 percent the past year. Oppo...

Apple has fallen from the top spot as best-selling smartphone in China for the first time in five years, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research released last Friday (via CNBC). According to the report, Apple’s sales in China have declined significantly, with Chinese brand Oppo now taking the top spot. Counterpoint Research mentions that the...

Apple has won a record-breaking share in the smartphone market following the release of the new iPhone 7, reports Strategy Analytics. iPhones contributed to 91 percent of all smartphone profits around the world between July and September, followed by Chinese firm Huawei with 2.4 percent. Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics, had this to say […]

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple has lost the Chinese smartphone market to two local manufacturers which couldn't even crack the top five only two years ago. The two manufacturers are Oppo and Vivo, which have pushed Apple aside in China's smartphone market. The increase in popularity for both companies can be attributed to...