Chinese mobile phone makers took advantage of Nokia's slump and the popularity of the Android operating system for mobile phones to catch up with their overseas counterparts last year in the domestic market, the world's number one phone market.

The domestic makers occupied six spots in the list of the top 10 handset brands in China and took a combined market share of 37.5 percent by the end of last year, close to the other four overseas brands' share of 41.5 percent, according to a latest report by Analysys International, a Beijing-based IT research firm, on Wednesday.