Predictions from research firm Gartner place IT giant Lenovo at the top of the China’s smartphone market by 2013.

Lenovo has rapidly expanded into the smartphone market, overreaching Gartner’s expectations and achieving a 1.7 percent share in the Chinese market in less than two years from entering.

Lenovo is now ranked second with the marketplace with a 14.8 percent share compared to leaders Samsung with 16.7 percent.

Gartner analyst Sandy Shen said: “We think Lenovo will depend on the low-end market to sell handsets, so it will allow Lenovo to obtain a much larger share."