Beijing - It did not take long for ZTE surging smartphone market. ZTE is now the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world after posting a shipment of mobile phones in large numbers in the second quarter of this year.
Based on data from global research firm IDC, ZTE shipped eight million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012. This figure shows an impressive growth of 300 percent from a year ago in the same period.
Interestingly, as quoted from Tech Radar, Thursday (08/02/2012), ZTE also ejecting BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) came out of the ranks of the top five.
In addition, ZTE was successfully defended the fourth position in the overall handset shipments, and after shipping more than 15 million handsets in the past year.
ZTE is now accounted for a market share of about 5.2 percent of global smartphone sales with the majority in China, France, Britain and the United States. ZTE to within 0.5 percent after that HTC was fourth and closed to within 1.4 percent of Nokia in third.
"Entering the top five mobile phone manufacturers are critical to achieving our target of a manufacturer of three major mobile phone vendors in 2015," said EVP and Head of the Division ZTE He Shiyou Terminal.
