CHINA SMART-PHONE EXPORTS TO GROW 40% IN 2013

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March 27, 2013

TAIPEI - Global smartphone shipments from China in 2013 will grow by an estimated 40% to 304 million because of stronger demand, Taiwanese market research firm Digitimes Research, has forecast. The assessment is in line with an earlier prediction by the Taiwan Industrial Economics and Knowledge Research Centre. With dramatic price cuts and quality gains in white box smartphones - unbranded phones that clone more popular models - the smartphone market will continue to expand substantially, the research centre said. As for Chinese smartphone brands, shipments of Huawei Technologies Co.