China has a total of 200 millioniOS and Android devices as of this year’s third quarter, up 125 percent from the first quarter of 2012, according to a report by Chinese mobile application analytics platform Umeng.

Specifically, 140 million of these were Android devices; the remaining 60 million devices used Apple's iOS platform. As well, the total number of mobile application activations grew by 223.2 percent over the second quarter of 2012.

In the Android’s device market, Samsung's share continued to grow in the third quarter, reaching 27 percent. HTC came in second place with 14 percent, followed by Lenovowith 8 percent.

The volume of iPads grew by 28.7 percent in the third quarter, with the third-generation iPad accounting for 79 percent of the newly-added devices. In China, 79 percent of all tablets are iPads, beating the slate's 68 percent share of the global tablet market.

Market share of theiPhone slipped from 38 percent of all smartphones in China in the second quarter to 33 percent in the third quarter. The lost market share was mainly claimed by Samsung, Lenovo, and the Beijing-based Android device maker Xiaomi.

Umeng's figures all describe mobile devices which have launched at least one application using Umeng's mobile application analytics platform within a given period.