Smartphone Market – Page 17

Africa’s Smartphone Market Grows in Q3 2020, but Feature Phone Shipments Decline

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Africa’s overall mobile phone market shipments declined 6.0% year on year (YoY) in Q3 2020 according to IDC. The decline stemmed mainly from feature phones, with shipments of these devices declining …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Smartphone Market

Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020

by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totaled 366 million units in the third quarter of 2020, down 5.7% from the third quarter of 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. Overall global mobile phone sales to end …

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EMEA Smartphones Bounced Back in 3Q Before New Lockdowns, Says IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The EMEA smartphone market threw off the coronavirus blues in the third quarter, bouncing back to register some growth over the same period in 2019, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile …

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China’s Smartphone Market Dropped 14.3% in Q3 2020 Under Soft Demand and Delayed Product Availability, IDC Reports

by Artem Alekseenko

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 84.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in the third quarter of 2020, down 14.3% year-on-year (YoY). This was the result of multiple factors: soft …

Tags:China| IDC| Smartphone Market

Apple to account for half of flexible OLED smartphones in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports a forecast from Stone Partners that half of all new flexible OLED smartphones due to launch in 2021 will come from Apple, with the market representing …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market

Samsung Reclaims the Top Spot as Smartphone Market Performs Better Than Expected with 353.6 Million Device Shipments in 3Q20, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The worldwide smartphone market showed signs of improvement in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) with shipments declining just 1.3% year over year, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide …

Global smartphone shipments improve in 3Q20

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Global smartphone shipments fell by slightly over 6% on year in the third quarter of 2020, improving significantly from the previous two quarters as demand for smartphones outside the China market …

Tags:5G| Smartphone Market| Smartphones

Some Smartphone Market Items

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: …

Tags:5G| Huawei| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market

Global Smartphone Shipments Expected to Drop Nearly 10% in 2020, But a Strong 5G Push Is Expected to Bring the Market Back to Growth in 2021, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 9.5% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. While the …

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Is Covid Killing the Smartphone Market in 2020?

by Bob Raikes

I’m really a ‘big display’ specialist, but as part of some work I am doing to cover the whole of the SID Business Conference (a major task as it includes 41 talks, with plenty …

COVID-19 Causes Severe Slowdown in South Africa’s Smartphone Market

by Artem Alekseenko

South Africa’s smartphone market saw shipments decline 22.9% quarter on quarter in Q1 2020, according to the latest insights from global technology research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC). While shipments are traditionally …

Tags:Covid-19| IDC| Smartphone Market

Advent of the Flip Smartphone

by Steve Sechrist

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone some thirteen years ago, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and others were riding high, with both the candy bar (remember this) and flip phone designs leading the pack. Jobs …

Tags:AMOLED| Editor| Flexible Displays| Smartphone Market