Flooding takes toll on smartphone makers

Serious flooding in central China is affecting some smartphone vendors, with a factory besieged by water, aftersale services partially suspended and online retailers short of products.

Lenovo Group Ltd, a leading handset maker in China, said its newly released smartphone ZUK Z2 would be temporarily unavailable on online shopping platforms, due to heavy flooding in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.

"This morning, our factory in Wuhan was besieged by water, and we have sent more than 2,000 workers out of the plant to safe places," Chen Xudong, senior vice-president of Lenovo, said on Wednesday.