Mobile phone industry in China

Huawei Technologies is expected to surpass Nokia-Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent to become the second largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, after Ericsson, in 2009.

The export volume of China's mobile phones added up to a record high of 385 million in 2006, increased by 69.3 percent as compared with 2005.

Since 2011 smartphones, especially running the open source Android operating system, have become increasingly popular in the Chinese mobile market.

This is due to the Android system providing the possibility for factories to produce smartphones with increasing ease, which in turn has allowed prices to decrease even to below RMB 1,000 Yuan.

[2] China's mobile phone market is dominated by products with price under 2000 RMB yuan (about 300 dollars).

Android phones sold in China come with many more pre-installed apps that transmit privacy-sensitive data to third-parties without notice or consent.