Smartphone Market – Page 8

Trends to Help Save the Planet?

by Bob Raikes

For today’s Display Daily, I have combined a couple of topics that both looked interesting to me, but neither had worked its way to the top of my agenda. It occurred to me that …

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Strategy Analytics: MediaTek Exited 2021 with Over 75 Million Unit Lead Over Qualcomm in Smartphone Apps Processors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics published its 2021 result for the smartphone AP market and ranked Qualcomm as top in revenue (38%), but MediaTek sold 75 million more units than the US firm. Both …

Apple Scaling Back iPhone SE Production?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei Asia reported that Apple has cut back its forecast for the iPhone SE production in Q2 2022 by around two to three million units as it sees markets reacting to …

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GCC Mobile Phone Market Sees Shipments Increase Amid Healthy Consumer Demand

by Artem Alekseenko

Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that shipments of mobile phones to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region grew 8.3% quarter on quarter (QoQ) in Q4 2021 to total …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| IDC| Smartphone Market

Global Premium Smartphone Market Sales Reach Highest Ever in 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

The global premium (>$400 wholesale ASP) smartphone market sales grew 24% YoY in 2021 to reach their highest ever level, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service. The growth in the premium segment outpaced …

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OLED Adoption by Smartphones to Slow Down in 2022

by Woojin Son

LCD, which once used to dominate smartphone displays, is now gradually giving way to OLED. Widely recognized as a more advanced display, OLED has steadily increased its share in the small panel market for …

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Global Premium Smartphone Market Sales Reach Highest Ever in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research reported its data for the premium smartphone market in 2021 and said that it was up 24% to reach 27% of the overall market. (Counterpoint regards the market for …

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Strategy Analytics: OLED Drives the Smartphone Display Panel Market in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Strategy Analytics released its estimate for the revenue shares of the main panel makers in OLEDs for smartphones in 2021. It had SDC at 49% of the market which it judged …

Tags:BOE| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphone Market

Links Week Ending 1st April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, …

Africa’s Smartphone Market Sees Shipments Decline Amid Global Supply Shortages, but Growth Is Tipped for 2022

by Artem Alekseenko

Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa’s overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 11.3% in Q4 2021 to total 48.6 million units. The feature …

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

Strategy Analytics: Sony Achieves Smartphone CIS Market Dominance in 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

The global smartphone Image sensor market in 2021 secured a total revenue of $15.1 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report, “Smartphone Image Sensor Market Share Q4 2021: Sony Leads …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Samsung| Smartphone Market| sony

Global 5G Smartphone Sales Penetration Surpassed 4G for First Time in January 2022

by Artem Alekseenko

Sales penetration of 5G-capable smartphones reached 51% globally in January 2022, surpassing the penetration of 4G smartphones for the first time, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Monthly Handset Model Sales Tracker. China, North America …

Tags:3G & 4G| 5G| Smartphone Market