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07-26-2016, 10:50 PM
Chinese teenagers are spending less on smartphones
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While the average Chinese shopper is becoming more carefree when it’s time to buy a new phone, China’s teens are counting their pennies a lot more carefully.
Most Chinese teens have smartphones that cost up to $130. That’s in contrast to adults, about 51 percent of whom have phones that cost from $150 to $450, according to data released this week by local search engine giant Baidu.
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The result is bad news for Apple. Because of budget constraints for most, the iPhone is the eighth most popular smartphone brand among the nation’s teens – as opposed to the fourth most popular with everyone else in China. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/china-phone-price/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Most Chinese teens have smartphones that cost up to $130. That’s in contrast to adults, about 51 percent of whom have phones that cost from $150 to $450, according to data released this week by local search engine giant Baidu.
SEE ALSO: Why I decided to forgo my IIT placement to start up (https://www.techinasia.com/talk/forgo-my-iit-placement-start-up)
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