FILE PHOTO: A woman uses her smartphone while walking by Beijing’s Central Business District during morning rush hour as the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in China, April 17, 2020, REUTERS/Thomas Peter
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Smartphone shipments from China’s factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago, according to government data released on Tuesday.
The numbers suggest an early domestic rebound for smartphone makers such as Apple Inc and Huawei Technolgies [HWT.UL] and a potential return to normalcy in China for the broader consumer hardware market in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak.
Phone makers shipped 40.8 million handsets in April, up from 34.8 million in April 2019, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a state-backed think tank.
For the first time in years, the organisation did not reveal the percentage of Android devices shipped, a key metric that gave…
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