smartphone sales
Analysts cut 2023 tech spending predictions as consumers hold back
Predicting spending is a tricky business, especially in a period of economic uncertainty. Perhaps that’s why both IDC and Gartner have cut their fall predictions in the new year, with Gartner now pr
TrendForce expects the smartphone market to slowly recover in 2021, but Huawei won’t benefit
After a dismal year, the global smartphone market will slowly start recovering in 2021, predicts TrendForce. But Huawei won’t benefit and, in fact, will fall out of the research firm’s list of the
Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020
This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wireless technology helped reverse some troubling macro trends for the industry — or at the very least helped
Gartner: Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366M, slicing COVID-19 declines in Q1, Q2
We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets. Q3 smartph
Gartner reports first ever global decline in smartphone sales
Global smartphone sales have not been firing on all cylinders for several years now but Gartner's latest figures record the first ever decline since the analyst began tracking the market all the way b
India’s top smartphone makers come under pressure from Chinese rivals
India's smartphone market is heralded as the largest opportunity in mobile right now, but the country's top players are being disrupted as newcomers, mainly from China, rush into the country.
Global smartphone market shrinks, year over year
Worldwide sales of smartphones declined year over year, from Q1 2015 to Q1 2016, according to figures from analyst Strategy Analytics, which it says is the first time in the history of what it dubs th
Apple is selling more phones in India’s biggest cities than you might think
Conventional wisdom dictates that Apple performs best in Western markets, where operator-subsidized contracts are most popular and consumer spending power is greater, but it turns out the U.S. company
Led By iPhone 6, Apple Passed Samsung In Q4 Smartphone Sales, 1.9B Mobiles Sold Overall In 2014
If 2014 goes down as the year when smartphone sales globally passed the 1 billion mark (1.2 billion, to be exact, from a total of 1.9 billion mobile phones overall), Q4 will go down as the quarter
Apple’s Bigger iPhones Dent Android’s Sales Momentum
Apple's newest iPhones, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, have put a spring in iOS' smartphone sales figures for fall, and a small dent in the rival Android platform's share, according to new data from market
Gartner: 456M Phones Sold In Q3, 55% Of Them Smartphones; Android At 82% Share, Samsung A Flat Leader
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/androids-us-market-share-declined-by-5-in-q2-approaching-a-peak-strategy-analytics/">Last year</a>, Strategy Analytics made the prediction that we may have a
Kantar: With Android Inching Up In Smartphone Sales, Get Set For An iPhone ‘Spike’
With Apple in the middle of its first month of sales of two new iPhone models, the latest figures out from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/news-articles/Windows-Ph