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Xiaomi relied a lot on online sales in its first years, selling competitively-equipped smartphones at cost. With that strategy, Xiaomi managed to rise to the top of the smartphone charts in China and India within four years of its establishment, becoming the…
Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Vivo, which together have a 17% share of the market in India, have slashed trade margins by over 40%, leading to a backlash by neighbourhood stores and mobile phone retail chains. Industry executives said Oppo and Vivo have…
FPT Digital Retail is set to launch an IPO on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange on Friday week. Details of the IPO pricing have not been disclosed, but the retail arm of Vietnam’s largest IT company plans to use the proceeds over the next three years to…
Oppo Mobiles India has been granted approval to open single-brand retail stores, meaning the Chinese smartphone maker can now sell directly to consumers in addition to its wholesale business. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board announced the approval on…
Oppo Philippines has opened a concept store at Ayala Center Cebu. It is part of a nationwide expansion plan by the smartphone brand. “Cebu is a valuable market for Oppo… our selfie-centric smartphones are definitely relevant in the ninth city for most selfies…
Chinese phone brand Oppo Malaysia has officially launched its first flagship store for Southeast Asia at Suria KLCC. As a special service, customers can have their Oppo devices engraved. Shoppers who buy a phone in store are not charged for the…
OPPO, the No. 1 smartphone vendor in China in 2016, plans to sell 100 million phones globally as it taps its models’ strong photography features and the company’s offline retail channels. Oppo partners Sony and Qualcomm to develop customized processors and…
Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn’t have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now. Duan is the reclusive billionaire who founded Oppo and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest…
Apple China plans to set up two more research hubs and boost investment there. The announcement comes as CEO Tim Cook takes his latest trip to Apple’s single biggest overseas market. He is expected to be present at the opening of a new Apple store at Jinmao…
Apple has finally halted the dream run of Xiaomi in China, the largest smartphone market in the world, edging the Chinese phone giant from the fourth slot by shipping nearly 45 million iPhones to the Communist nation, a report by market research firm IDC…
Chinese smartphone maker Oppo may currently dominate China’s smartphone market with almost one-fifth market share, edging out previous leader Huawei, but the company is already looking to expand even more aggressively into markets such as Vietnam, Indonesia…
According to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) latest Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, total smartphone shipment in Indonesia in 2016Q3 recorded a slight Quarter-On-Quarter (QoQ) drop of 7% but still showed a moderate increase of 4% over the same period…
Oppo has relaunched its self-proclaimed “selfie expert” – the F1s – with increased memory and storage in India. The phone will now be available with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. It will also be available in a new grey color. Oppo launched the F1s earlier in…
OPPO has officially established a partnership with e-commerce company Tokopedia to market its best products, such as its best-selling product OPPO F1s. “Our cooperation with Tokopedia is an added value to our customers throughout Indonesia,” OPPO Indonesia…
The latest smartphone OS sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows a solid 5.2% percentage point US market share increase for iOS during the third quarter of 2016 to 34.2%. Both iOS and Android made gains across most of the EU5 countries. However,…
China smartphone demand grew 17 per cent last month, according to technology research company Counterpoint’s monthly Market Pulse. It was the best-ever June in terms of sell-through for smartphones, despite the overall market having modest growth for the…
