The number of Chinese smartphones sold will decline this year, but growth will pick up next year

At least IDC expects this, and even that growth will continue until 2022.

Analysts have already sounded the alarm in the first half of the year, which is no wonder it produced a serious downturn in the mobile phone market. According to current data, it is likely that although the results for the second half of the year will be 1,1 percent higher than the same period last year, manufacturers can expect a 0,7 percent decline for the full year. In addition, according to IDC, this second-half momentum will not be interrupted next year, in fact, by 2022, they are expected to expand by more than one percent annually.

Another interesting feature of the survey is the rate at which the share of large-screen, 5,5-inch or larger phones in the overall market is growing. While in 2017, 42,5 percent of total sales were such large devices, this year there will be 64,7 percent. That’s 623,2 million large-screen phones last year and 941,6 million this year. According to IDC, this trend will be further strengthened by major Chinese manufacturers such as Oppo, Huawei or Xiaomi, but new iPhone devices will also take the market for this. By 2022, the share of large-screen phones is expected to grow to 84,5 percent to 1,391 billion handsets.

The engine of growth in telephone sales will continue to be the Pacific market. In terms of number of units, the Indian market is growing the largest, but in percentage terms they are ahead of Indonesia. The number of telephones sold increases by 154,4 per cent and by 14,4 per cent for the former.