Middle and low-level intelligent machines will play important roles in the future.

Middle and low-level intelligent machines will play important roles in the future.

Chen Lingjun, an industry analyst at the IEK of the Industrial Research Institute, said that middle and low-end mobile phones and emerging markets play a more important role than ever before, while mainland brands such as Huawei show their global ambitions.

According to IEK, four mainland brands, including Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE and Yulong, were among the top 10 brands in the global smart phone market in 2013. Huawei rose to the third largest in the world, while Japanese giant Sony soared to seventh, while Nokia and HTC ranked ninth and 10th.

IEK pointed out that global mobile phone shipments reached 1.84 billion units in 2013, smart phones shipped 1.018 billion units, and the smartphone penetration rate reached 55%. It is estimated that the smartphone penetration rate will reach 84% in 2017.

Chen Lingjun observed the flagship phones of major manufacturers and pointed out that Sony launched its flagship Xperia Z2 with 20.7 million pixel cameras and 4K high-definition video recordings, and emphasized the concept of One Sony to integrate the technology of various institutions with mobile phones.

Observing Samsung's performance this year, Chen Lingjun believes that Samsung's flagship Galaxy S5 has fully upgraded hardware specifications, equipped with fingerprint identification and the world's first heart rhythm sensor, and its waterproof coefficient is currently the highest in the industry.

It is worth noting that Huawei launched a 7-inch X1 tablet phone on the MWC to support its own Hayes chip and demonstrate its determination to build a world brand. In addition, Huawei and Samsung and Sony, also launched the smart bracelet, the market believes that Huawei's TalkBand B1 is innovative, Chen Lingjun believes that there is great potential for development.

Chen Lingjun said that middle-and low-end smartphones also played an important role in MWC this year, such as HTC Desire 816, Lenovo S660, Huawei Ascend G6, Nokia X and so on. Among them, the Nokia X series is Nokia's first Android phone, with the goal of connecting the next billion people to the Internet.