Foldable phone shipments in mainland China more than doubled last year in spite of overall weakness in the world’s largest smartphone market, with Huawei Technologies remaining the country’s top vendor in this growing handset segment, reports the South China Morning Post.
Mainland shipments of foldable smartphones reached 7.01 million units last year, up 114% from 3.2 million in 2022, according to a report on Tuesday by tech market research firm IDC.
That marked the fourth consecutive year of triple-digit annual growth for this segment—including clamshell-type handsets that flip open vertically and those designed like a booklet that expand horizontally into tablet form—since the first such models were introduced on the mainland in 2019, IDC data showed.