Slow And Low: Smartphone Sales Grew By Only 32% This Quarter; Overall Mobile Market Just 1%, Says StrategyAnalytics

Now that all the big handset makers have put in their quarterly sales figures, Strategy Analytics has done the number crunching for an overall picture of what happened in the mobile market. The upshot: just as many predicted, mobile as a whole -- facing wider?economic slowdown and "shifting consumer tastes" --?remained largely flat, growing by just 1%. But smartphones, still at a less mature state, are selling much better: collectively, shipments (which equals sales in SA's book) grew by 32% in the quarter, the analysts said, with Samsung and Apple leading the way with over half the global market between them. That sounds like a good-news story for smartphones, except when you understand that 32% growth (146.1 million units total in Q2)?is actually the slowest the smartphone market has expanded in three years. In comparison, the market grew by 77% in the same quarter a year ago.

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