Foreign smartphone sales in China drop 12.7% in August, data show
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FILE PHOTO: People look at the new iPhone 15 Pro as Apple's new iPhone 15 officially goes on sale across China at an Apple store in Shanghai, China September 22, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) - Sales of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc's iPhone, in China fell 12.7% in August year-on-year, according to data released on Wednesday from a government-affiliated research firm.
Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that during the month, sales of foreign-branded phones in China fell to 1.87 million handsets, down from 2.142 million a year earlier.
Overall phone sales in China increased 26.7% from a year earlier to 24.05 million handsets in August, the CAICT data showed.
(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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