Chinese brands accounted for 40 percent of global smartphone sales in 2015 and took seven spots in the top-10 list of vendors, a research firm said on Monday.
The global smartphone sales reached 1.29 billion units last year, up 10.3 percent year on year, according to TrendForce, a Taiwan-based research company.
Chinese brands sold 539 million units, or 40 percent of the total sales, in 2015. The figure is expected to hit 45 percent this year.