According to our Wearable Device Ecosystems (WDE) service, China smartwatch sales will surge several thousand percent in 5 years from 2013 to 2018. We expect technology heavyweights -- such as Samsung, Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Qualcomm, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo and Google -- to expand the market significantly in coming years.

This published report, available to clients, forecasts global smartwatch sales, for 88 countries worldwide, from 2012 to 2017. Almost every major country worldwide is covered, including United States, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This report can be used by hardware vendors, semiconductor and component suppliers, operators, software developers, content developers and other stakeholders to determine the size and growth rate of the global smartwatch market.