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Will New iPhone Display Go Bezel-less?

by Steve Sechrist

LG Display just published an infograph report this week on the topic “Why Bezel-Less Matters”. In it, the company cites an IDC study on cell phone display size preference based on user multi media …

Gartner Says Worldwide Device Shipments Will Decline 0.3% in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to exceed 2.3 billion units in 2017, a decline of 0.3% from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to return to growth …

Dixons Carphone and Sprint End Retail Partnership

by Alan Spencer

Sprint of the US, and Dixons Carphone of the UK, have decided to end their joint partnership which has lasted under two years, and was focused on retail expansion in the US. It is …

Challenging Conditions Affect Africa’s Mobile Phone Market

by Yvette Raikes

Q1 mobile phone shipments in Africa were 54.5 million, down 8.2% QoQ, according to figures from IDC. Smartphones in particular saw a drop of 17.6% to 21.2 million units. However, the YOY market rose …

BC11 Next Generation Flexible, Rollable and Foldable Displays

by Bob Raikes

Ryan Reith is Program VP for IDC’s Mobile Tracker and he started by saying that there is plenty of room for growth in smartphone volumes as, at the moment, penetration globally is only 43%. …

Galaxy S8 Sells Faster Than S7

by Yvette Raikes

The Galaxy S8 sold 1 million units within 37 days of its launch in South Korea, according to a Samsung official speaking to the Korea Herald. The S6 and S7 took 75 and 74 …

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Smartphone Shipments Expected to Improve

by Yvette Raikes

IDC expects 2017 global smartphone shipments to go up by 3% from last year to 1.517 billion. The company also predicts that the recovery will continue into 2018 with YoY growth of 4.5%. The …

A Smartphone Surprise: U.S. Ownership Hits Record Levels, Says CTA Research

by Isaac Oburu

Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes – a six percentage point increase year-over-year (YOY) – and U.S. consumers now own 27 million more smartphones than they did just last year, according …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| Smartphone Market

IHS Markit Sees First Positive Year-Over-Year Smartphone Shipment Gains in Two Years

by Milos Pavlovic

The global smartphone market continues its recovery, with the top three Chinese OEMs posting impressive gains according to IHS Markit. Samsung continued to lead the pack in smartphone shipments during the first quarter of …

Tags:IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 19

HTC U11 Beats Google Pixel

by Yvette Raikes

HTC has launched its U11 smartphone. It has a 5.5″ LCD screen (1440 x 2560 pixels) and runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Based on a Snapdragon 835, it can have up to 6G of RAM …

Tags:Android| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Chinese Vendors Capture 51.4% of Indian Smartphone Market

by Alan Spencer

The latest IDC quarterly mobile phone tracker shows that 27 million smartphones were shipped in India in the first quarter of 2017, representing a 14.8% rise compared to the same period last year. Shipments …

Tags:IDC| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Huawei Overtakes Oppo to Become Top Smartphone Company in China

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, 104.1 million smartphones were shipped to China in the first quarter of this year, representing just a 1% rise compared to the same quarter in 2016. The quarter did have product …