TCL Announces Shipment Figures of Handsets and Other Products for January 2017

New Keyboard BlackBerry Smartphone and A Series of New Products Debuted at CES 2017 – TCL XESS mini Won IDG Award

TCL Communication Technology Holdings, together with its subsidiaries and its affiliates (the group), today announced the unaudited figures for shipments of handsets and other products in January 2017.

The Group’s total sales volume of handsets and other products totalled 3,824,000 units in January 2017. Sales volume of smart devices totalled 2,418,000 units, and accounted for 63% of the Group’s total shipment for the month.

In early January, CES 2017 kicked off in Las Vegas, USA. The Group offered a first glimpse of its new BlackBerry keyboard smartphone which is the first product towards its long-term licensing agreement with BlackBerry. It draws on unparalleled mobile security and software expertise to offer the most complete security available for an Android smartphone. The distinctive BlackBerry keyboard and a number of apps, such as Hub+, enable its productivity for business and professional users.

During the show, the Group also introduced its new products including Alcatel A3 XL smartphone, TCL LIFE Home Monitoring Kit, TCL MOVEBAND BT Smartband, which drew extensive attention from the market and consumers.

Alcatel A3 XL is equipped with a stylish 6-inch HD IPS screen, which also supports fingerprint recognition and super-fast LTE Category 4 connectivity, offers a fabulous experience for the users. TCL LIFE Home
Monitoring Kit comes with a full set of stylish yet discreet products, including camera, door and window sensor and motion detector, which can be easily managed via one single smartphone application. This provides users a complete but yet simple solution to check and control what’s going on at home, from anywhere at any anytime.

In addition, the Group also presented its new smartband TCL MOVEBAND BT Smartband, which comes with the real leather wristbands, helps users keep track of life activities, and also monitors activity, fitness and sleep, to better manage their health.

Meanwhile, the Group has won Best Integrated Large Screen Products of the Year for the XESS mini from the International Data Group (IDG), proving the acknowledgement and high value from the industry towards the Group’s product. This acclaim not only demonstrated the Group’s achievement in integrated innovation, but also asserted its integrated capability as a global leading manufacture of smart devices.