China Smartphone Shipments Fall for 6th straight quarter - IDC

China's third-quarter smartphone shipments fell 15.4% from a year earlier to 57.9 million units, research firm IDC said on Tuesday. Huawei was the only major vendor to post double-digit growth, Reuters reported. The firm shipped 12.2 million units and led the market with a 21% share, IDC data showed. Apple was second with 17.8%, though its shipments in China fell 4.3%. Chinese rivals Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi saw shipment declines of 17.6%, 24.9% and 20.4%, respectively.


