Sentence examples for local handset makers from inspiring English sources

The marketing power of bigger local handset makers like Lenovo, Huawei and Taiwan's HTC, which together recently sold about 25 percent of all smartphones in China, cannot be discounted either.

That makes it more profitable, and less risky, to manufacture them for any of the dozens of local handset makers, who are seeing demand explode from a population that has bought nearly 200m smartphones in the past six months alone.

Price competition at the bottom end of the market is so fierce that ZTE, a local handset maker, is thought to be losing money.Apple could try to compete by offering a cheaper model with fewer features, something it has resisted in other markets.

During an especially rough quarter, local handset maker Xiaomi's shipment dipped significantly from 17.1 to 10.5 million year over year, according to the firm.

Those handset makers will now have to compete against Google.

The toll seemed to blindside handset makers in the last quarter.

Microsoft tightly controls levels of customisation by handset makers.

"Targeting those users is huge for handset makers," he said.

Most handset makers would struggle with twice that time.

Such equipment will need to communicate with phone handsets, so handset makers will also need to co-operate.The handset makers, for their part, have an ambivalent relationship with operators.

Opera is also talking to mobile-phone operators and handset makers directly.