App Developers in China

Xiaomi builds phones, a large connected-home range and, since 2024, electric cars. It reached scale by selling hardware at thin margins and making its money on everything around it.

Huawei makes phones, wearables and laptops alongside the telecoms equipment business it started as. Its premium phone lines are Mate and Pura, formerly the P series.

Honor makes phones, tablets and wearables. It was Huawei's sub-brand until 2020, when it was sold and became an independent company.

OPPO makes phones led by the Find and Reno lines, and is known for charging speeds well ahead of the market under its VOOC name.

vivo makes phones led by the X series, whose cameras are developed with Zeiss, plus the performance-focused iQOO sub-brand and a large value range.

Transsion makes phones for the Global South under TECNO, itel and Infinix. Barely known in Europe or North America, and the largest phone seller in Africa.

Lenovo makes ThinkPad and Legion computers and, through Motorola, phones. It has twice bought an American brand nobody expected it to and kept it alive.

ZTE builds telecommunications network equipment and sells phones, routers and mobile broadband devices alongside it.

TCL is one of the largest television makers in the world, and makes phones under both its own name and Alcatel.