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
BEIJING – 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
