Overview:
•Sell through was better in September as sales in India picked up sharply during the Pre-Diwali festival season. The US market was also up after a slow July and August. Japan also entered an active promotion season as the iPhone has started to sell.
•However, China and Europe were down during September compared to the previous month. Sell-in also rose slightly in September mostly due to the iPhone and Galaxy Note 8. Inventory levels are rising for Chinese brands as the Chinese market is continuously disappointing compared to last year.
•Our analysts attended 5G Asia. There was evidence that 5G is happening, led by significant developments, successful trials by key operators SK Telecom, Korea Telecom, NTT Docomo and 65 other operators with help from infrastructure vendors such as ZTE, Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia.
Table of Contents:
- Monthly Research Topic
- Key Takeaways
- Global Market Status
- Market Sizing – Demand & Supply / Price band
- Market Share – Vendor / Price band
- Major Country Landscape
- US Market Landscape
- China Market Landscape
- India Market Landscape
- Trends in Features and Specs
- Hardware trends and feature adoption rates
- Average feature sets
- Vendor market share by feature set
Number of Pages: 48 (Full reports are available for clients at our portal)
Author: Counterpoint (analyst@counterpointresearch.com)
Published Date: Oct 2017
