China ’s smartphone lading exceed those of characteristic phones for the first time ever during the second one-quarter , as downhearted - price smartphone gadget cover to help drive sale in the res publica ’s fluid handset market place , according to research firm IDC

The country ’s mobile phones shipments in the second twenty-five percent reach 87 million . Of those load , 51 percent , or 44.4 million , were for smartphones , accord to data point provide by IDC on Friday .

Smartphone shipments were originally forecast to overtake feature film phones only by 2013 , said Teck Zhung Wong , an analyst with the research firm .

“ The market has really set off , ” he said . “ hoi polloi are really purchase into smartphones and prices have come down quite a lot . Mainly due to lower prices , more devices can be buy at a cheap price , but still do very well . ”

motor most of China ’s smartphone sales are those price at 1000 yuan ( US$ 158 ) and low , Wong enounce . At the same time , Formosan retailers are less interested in carrying feature headphone , and rather want to sell smartphones .

In the second quarter , Samsung ’s smartphone securities industry share was the highest at 19 percent , according to IDC .

Apple was China ’s fourth bombastic smartphone vendor , with its mart parcel nearly halve down to 10 percent from the first tail , when the company launch the iPhone 4S in the rural area .

The decline came in part because of the high number of Apple shipments during the first quartern for the iPhone 4S launching , Wong allege . Many customers have also decide to look for the company ’s upcoming iPhone 5 . At the same time , other consumers have also make up one’s mind to bribe smartphones from competing seller instead .

Rival devices include those from Lenovo , which had the secondly big share in China ’s smartphone market at 11 percent . Lenovo , which is ground in China , is already a familiar brand name among the country ’s consumers , Wong say .

“ They are actually being very aggressive , ” he summate . “ They have come out with models at very good prices , with good performance and capabilities . So people are purchase . ”

The growth in China ’s smartphone shipments come as mobile handset have become the act one preferred way for hoi polloi in the country to lumber on to the Internet . China has538 millionInternet users , 388 million of which are nomadic user , harmonise to the China Internet connection Information Center .