Low-end Huawei, ZTE and Micromax devices aim to challenge Samsung et al.
Tech researcher ABI is behind the report, which examines Asia-Pacific's growing mobile market. It claims the smartphone market has a 24 per cent share of total handset shipments in 2011, which has increased by 17 per cent from last year.
This demonstrates the popularity for smartphones in the region. Just yesterday we reported Thailand's shipments are to increase 19 per cent.
Google's Android devices account for the majority of smartphone shipments, up 16 per cent from 2010 to 52 per cent.
This increase has led to the market share held by ‘big three’ Android makers Samsung and HTC rising from 11 per cent to 24 per cent for the year.
However, ABI says this domination could be challenged as low-end handset firms such as Huawei, Micromax, Karbonn, G'Five and ZTE raise their smartphone market shares.
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Tablets also seem to be popular in Asian markets as 7.8 million devices are predicted to be shipped for 2011.
Jeff Orr, group director, mobile devices, said: "Despite the current global economic situation, markets in the Asia-Pacific will continue to see increased acceptance for media tablets, driven by the accelerated penetration of 3G in emerging markets, as well as the availability of media tablets in lower price ranges."
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