{"id":422192,"date":"2026-02-12T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422192\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:20:09","slug":"chinas-january-smartphone-sales-down-23-y-y-says-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422192\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s January smartphone sales down 23% Y\/Y, says Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s smartphone sales fell 23% \u200cin January compared with a \u200cyear ago due to a high \u200bbase in 2025 and a shift in the timing of Chinese New Year promotions, Counterpoint \u200cResearch said \u2060on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Chinese mobile maker Huawei kept the leading \u2060position last month despite a 27% Y\/Y decline in \u200bsales, Counterpoint \u200bsaid in \u200ba statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Domestic brands \u200cmostly saw double\u2011digit declines in sales in January with Xiaomi falling the most at 36% on the year, the \u200cstatement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> was \u200bthe only major \u200bbrand to \u200bpost year-on-year growth. Its \u200csales in China \u200bwere up \u200b8% Y\/Y in January, with the iPhone 17 series \u200bsustaining \u200cstrong momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Shi Bu \u200band Ryan Woo; Editing \u200bby Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) &#8211; China&#8217;s smartphone sales fell 23% \u200cin January compared with a \u200cyear ago due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[891,82401,2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-422192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-counterpoint-research","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}