China Oct smartphone shipments up 30.6% y/y, likely driven by iPhone

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ Shipments of smartphones within China rose 30.6% year-on-year to 32.7 million handsets in October, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported late on Tuesday.

The figures follow a large fall that began in the first half of the year, with the revival driven by the release of the latest models of Apple Inc's iPhone, according to a research firm.

Apple launched the iPhone 13 in China in September.

Handset brands are currently experiencing production issuesdue to a global computer chip shortage.

That shortage has since spread to many types of chips andall kinds of hardware, including smartphones.

Delayed upgrades from consumers had also caused sales toslow.