Coolpad

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Coolpad Group Limited
Native name
酷派集团有限公司
Public
Traded as SEHK2369
Industry Consumer electronics
Founded April, 1993
Founder Guō Déyīng (郭德英)
Headquarters Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Guō Déyīng
(Chairman and CEO)
Products Smartphones
Number of employees
5,000+[1]
Subsidiaries ivvi[2]
Website www.coolpad.com
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Coolpad Group Limited (Chinese: 酷派集团; pinyin: Kùpài Jítuán SEHK2369) is a Chinese telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the largest smartphone company in China[3][4] and largest Chinese domestic brand by sales outside of China.[5] From January to June 2012, the company had a market share of shipments of 10.4%.[6]

Coolpad was originally the smartphone brand of Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co.,[5] itself a subsidiary of China Wireless Technologies Limited. China Wireless was officially renamed "Coolpad Group Limited" at the end of 2013.[7]

Global presence

  • In 2012, Coolpad entered the US mobile phone market with its first 4G LTE smartphone, cooperating with MetroPCS.
  • In 2015, CES, Coolpad was awarded "Global Smart Phone Brands Top 10" and "Global Smart Connected Devices Top 10" by IDG.
  • In 2015, Coolpad was listed on the Forbes Asia TOP 50.
  • In June 2015, Coolpad launched three products in Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Vietnam).
  • In September 2015, Coolpad entered 10 countries in Eastern Europe.

Controversies

On 17 December 2014, Palo Alto Networks announced they had found a backdoor installed on many of their handsets, and dubbed it "CoolReaper".[8]

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