The attached report is as follows:

 65% of the respondents said that after the phone battery died, it will affect the mood.

 72% of respondents said they started to feel anxious when their phone battery dropped below 20%.

 40% of respondents said that their smartphone is the last thing they open or close their eyes to every day.

 87% of respondents said they would use their phones while charging.

 About half of the respondents charge their smartphones twice a day.

 60% of the respondents said they would change their phones for battery life.

The study categorized the discomfort associated with low-battery anxiety into six categories:

 worry / anxiety

 isolated from the world

 helpless

 fear of missing out

 nervous

 unsafe

Among them, “worry/anxiety” is the most felt emotion, with 28% of the respondents choosing this option.

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The report noted that the semiconductor industry is currently showing cyclical rather than structural weakness. The market is expected to be sluggish in the first half of 2023; growth is expected in the second half of 2023 as OEMs begin to replenish inventories and prepare to release flagship products.

Counterpoint said that in addition to high-end chips, Qualcomm also has opportunities in the mid-to-low-end AP/SoC market, which is more affected than the high-end market. Qualcomm will try to regain some of the mid-to-low-end market share from MediaTek.

In addition, the report said that Qualcomm’s acquisition of NUVIA, which can customize CPUs and designs, in 2021, and has developed a customized version of the Oryon CPU based on the ARM platform, which will further drive growth. Counterpoint expects Arm-based laptops to have a 25% market share within five years.

According to the financial report, Qualcomm’s fiscal year 2022 achieved revenue of US$44.200 billion currently about 304.096 billion CNY), a year-on-year increase of 32%; net profit of US$12.936 billion (currently about 89 billion CNY), a year-on-year increase of 43%.

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Global folding screen smartphone shipments are expected to grow 52 percent year-over-year to 22.7 million units in fiscal 2023. And global folding screen phone shipments will reach 14.9 million units in fiscal 2022. Cumulative shipments from Q1 to Q3 2022 are up 90 percent year-over-year and now stand at 9.5 million units, according to the report. However, due to global inflation and the economic downturn, the growth of global folding screen smartphone shipments is bound to decline in the fourth quarter of 2022.

This volume may be insignificant in the context of the overall smartphone market, but if you consider the ultra-high-end market ($1,000 or $7,000 and up), which has always been significant, we see that folding screen phones are starting to dominate,” said Tarun Pathak, director of Counterpoint’s global smartphone business. In that segment, folding-screen phones are shipping a double-digit share this year, and we expect that number to grow to more than 20 percent in 2023.”

The report notes that more Chinese OEMs are expected to enter the market, so the global folding screen phone market is bound to become more competitive in 2023. However, Samsung is expected to continue to lead the market. Honor, Motorola and Xiaomi will aggressively enter the folding screen smartphone market outside of China. Meanwhile, Huawei, OPPO and Vivo are expected to launch new folding screen phone products in 2023. Given the increasingly competitive folding screen smartphone market, prices are expected to become more affordable in 2023. High prices have been a major obstacle to the popularity of folding screen devices.

Commenting on the folding screen smartphone market, senior analyst Jene Park said, “Competition in the global folding screen smartphone market is expected to intensify in 2023 as more OEMs enter the market. Samsung has launched the Galaxy W 23 Flip/Fold to meet the demand for folding screen phones in China, while Chinese OEMs are targeting Western European markets. Given these developments, the Chinese and Western European folding screen phone markets may be at the center of a fierce battle.”

In response to the popular question many are asking about Apple’s entry, Jene Park added, “The company is still not covered in our short-term forecast, but they are known for their slow pace, and their current strategy is to wait for the opportunity to move and actively follow the moves just like the rest of the market.”

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Counterpoint’s latest forecast has been revised downward from the previous 6 percent growth rate, and the agency expects market performance to remain sluggish in the first half of 2023, only to begin growing in the third quarter.

Counterpoint Vice President Peter Richardson said annual smartphone shipments are unlikely to return to pre-epidemic levels in the near term, given the increase in ASP and longer replacement cycles; replacement cycles are expected to reach an all-time high of 43 months this year. Although replacement cycles will gradually shorten starting next year, they will remain above 40 months.

However, the agency expects the global 5G handset market to show healthy growth starting in 2024, as low- and mid-priced 5G devices become more common.

The report adds that as more handset manufacturers enter the foldable space, the market will see the price of these phones stabilize and the foldable segment will become more prominent as the 5G space grows.

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Samsung continues to lead the pack, with a 62 percent share of the folding screen phone market in the first half of the year. With the launch of the new Galaxy Fold 4 and Flip 4 models, the report expects that share to jump to 80 percent in the second half of the year.

Counterpoint Research forecasts show that the global market for folding screen smartphones will grow 73 percent to 16 million units this year from 9 million units last year, and is expected to continue to see strong growth next year, with folding screen phones expected to grow to 26 million units by 2023.

In June 2022, Samsung held the major market share for folding screen smartphones in the first half of 2022, accounting for 62% of the total market share; Huawei and OPPO ranked second and third respectively.

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