Chinese Mobile Device Usage Stats and Insights

As a follow up for the recent post I made about the types of mobile phones used in China, I’ve prepared some data on Chinese mobile Internet user demographics. The data is from the latest CNNIC report published in January 2012.

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There were over 975 million mobile phone users as of November 2011 according to the MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China). Mobile phones have become an indispensable tool for modern communication. Read more...

The CNNIC report for January 2012 came out, so I've updated my graphs to reflect the recent data. The data is up-to-date as of the end of December, 2011.

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Tablet time!

A reader asked for some data on tablet usage on China, so I did some digging around and found a couple semi-relevant articles. I've simplified and 'Englishified' two Chinese-language articles that I found online Read more...

This post is now outdated.

See the Jan 2012 edition at http://www.east-west-connect.com/chinese-internet-user-demographics-jan-2012.

Here it is! 15 years of data on Chinese Internet usage, reorganized into a more easily readable format. I think there are some really cool figures here! Read more...

A couple weeks ago I posted some data from Baidu about the mobile phone industry in China. Baidu also has some great data specific to Android, and here it is!

1. Android Market Share

For those that didn’t read the last article, Android currently has about 22% of the market. While that’s nowhere near Symbian, it is rapidly catching up. Read more...

Are you selling any Mobile phone accessories or related phone services online? Are you planning to sell your products in China? If yes, here’s some research data from Baidu you might want to see.

1. Search Index For The Mobile Phone Industry

In the first quarter of 2011, there was an average of 16 million searches related to mobile phones each day. Read more...

I just read an interesting Chinese-language report on smartphone usage in China and thought you might be interested in some of the data, so here it is. :)

The China smartphone market saw a great year in 2010, with total smartphone sales estimated at 30 million. Competition amongst smartphone operating systems has intensified, as has the competition between the handset manufacturers. Read more...