Among them, in March, the Japanese factory smartphone shipments contracted by 20.5% to 1.009 million units in the same month of last year, which fell for the third consecutive month, but monthly shipments exceeded 1 million for the first time in three months.
In the month of March, the factory's smartphones accounted for 68.7% of the total mobile phone shipments (64.7% in February 2018).
During the 2017 annual period (April -2018, March 2017), the company's mobile phone shipments increased 0.2% year-on-year to 17.587 million units, which represented the first increase in seven years. Smartphone shipments rose 10.7% to 11.865 million. In the third consecutive year, the branch showed growth, and the annual shipment volume reached a new high level in the past four years (2013, 11.225 million units).
JEITA's statistics on smart phone shipment data do not include hot-selling overseas products such as Apple's iPhone, and only include four Japanese manufacturers: Sony Mobile, Sharp, Kyocera, and Fujitsu. .
The MM Research Institute of Japan announced on May 10 that the number of smartphones in Japan for 2017 (April 2017-2018) increased by 8.1% to 32.58 million units, In the second year, it set a record high. Among them, Sharp's investment in Sharp's investment jumped into the ranks of the Japanese Android (Android) camp, ranking the second place in the Japanese smart phone market after Apple (2016 ranking) 3).