BEIJING - China"s mobile phone shipments rose 9.2 percent year-on-year to 28.02 million units in June, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed. In the first six months, total shipments came in at 136 million units, said the academy, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Domestic shipments of 5G mobile phones hit about 23.03 million units last month, jumping 16.3 percent from a year earlier and accounting for 82.2 percent of the total shipments. Domestic brands continued to dominate China's mobile phone market in June, with shipments reaching 24.51 million units,

Chinese tech company Honor Device Co said it will seek to shine in the global high-end smartphone market this year. To that end, the company has already established cooperation with more than 200 distributors and telecom operators across the world. Like Honor, Chinese smartphone makers are trying to grow their overseas footprint in the premium handset segment, so as to compete with international players such as Apple Inc. Zhao Ming, CEO of Honor, said the company launched its Honor 50 model in overseas markets at the end of last year. The launch signified Honor"s return to the global arena as

The worldwide wearables market hit a new record high in the fourth quarter of 2021 as shipments reached 171 million units, up 10.8 percent from the same quarter of the previous year, according to the latest data from the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The data from IDC also showed shipments for the full year 2021 totaled 533.6 million units, an increase of 20 percent over 2020. IDC said new products and continued demand for health and fitness tracking products, along with hearables, helped the market maintain its momentum. Hearables, or smart earphones, were once again