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The most popular Android phones by country in Asia

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Animoca’s games are played by tens of millions of Android gamers. So the company has a good feel for which phones are the most popular in different areas around the world. Check out the infographic to see what’s popular in various places in Asia. The data are based on usage in July. It shows that Samsung dominates every key smartphone market in the region except for Japan, where Sony holds the top spot. India is the only nation where low-end phones are popular.

The largest battlefield is China, where the race is extremely close between the Samsung Galaxy SII and the Samsung Galaxy Note.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.