Flurry: China Has 261 Million Active Smartphones And Tablets, 65% On Android

Analytics firm Flurry has some new stats out for the China market. The company says it measured 261.33 million active smartphones and tablets in China in its most recent survey. Of those, 65 percent are Android devices, while the rest are on iOS [1].

China’s top maker of smart devices is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), which is testimony to the huge appeal of the iPhone and iPad over the years. Samsung (005930:KS) is second with a whole 15 percent of the market in China. Remarkably, local brand Xiaomi is third with six percent share – and that’s despite this only being Xiaomi’s second whole year of phone production. As we noted last week, Xiaomi doubled its phone sales in the first half of this year, so its impressive performance in the market with its Android-based phones looks set to continue. Here’s the graph from Flurry:

While it’s worth remembering that these statistics are from a sample of surveyed users (and are not sales figures), the numbers nonetheless sync with what we’ve noted before about Samsung being top in China in terms of Android sales, chased hard by a lot of domestic phone-makers.

Turning to look at the broader China market, the country now has 24 percent of the world’s smart device users. After a huge growth spurt earlier this year, China’s adoption of smartphones and tablets has flattened out a bit and is now in-line with the global average growth rate:

(Source: Flurry blog)