According to preliminary figures in the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in China stood at 98 million units in the second quarter of 2019, down 6 per cent from the same period last year. This was however better than expectations of a 9 per cent contraction.

According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, total smartphone shipments in the emerging Southeast Asia (SEA) region recorded approximately 100 million units in 2017, declining by less than 1 percent year-on-year.