When you consider the latest global smartphone marketshare data from Gartner, which highlights a protracted industry slump in terms of handset sales, it starts to put things in perspective — Samsung, for example, deciding it needs to dramatically shake things up and give something new a try, like a foldable phone.
Gartner’s newly released data shows, among other things, that global smartphone sales was essentially flat during the recent holiday quarter — up just 0.1 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, with 408.4 million units shipped.
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Ahead of MWC next week, new data illustrates global smartphone slowdown originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 17:06:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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