In previous years, mobile phone models saw big differences from one generation to the next. Smartphone sales are expected to flatten out this year, according to a Canaccord Genuity forecast. Last year, the growth rate reached only 2.7 percent. The Wall Street firm predicts that consumers don’t have many reasons to upgrade this year. This prediction takes the mobile phone growth rate in a different direction than other respected forecasts. The Garner market research firm, on the other hand, said that smartphone sales growth would reach almost 5 percent. Still,…
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iPhone sales should essentially level off this year
Analysts are predicting that this year will see nearly no growth at all for the Apple smartphone. If there’s anything Apple has never needed to worry about before, it’s been its iPhone sales, as the popularity of the brand has been very strong from the time that the smartphone was first invented. However, analysts are now predicting that this year’s sales growth will be just slightly more than 1 percent. When all is said and done, iPhone sales are remaining nearly flat, this year. That is a massive plummet from…
Read MoreThe new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are now for sale
On Friday, the latest Apple smartphones made their way onto store shelves around the world. As of Friday, the newest Apple smartphones, the iPhone 6S and the 6S Plus have become available to consumers and it is expected that the sales that took place over the weekend will likely have been record breakers. As is the tradition during the release of Apple mobile devices, people flocked to its retail stores, worldwide. Among the most notable additions to the iPhone 6S smartphones are the improved camera as well as a 3D…
Read MoreTechnology news explodes with 9 million iPhone sales
The tech world looks back over the launch weekend of the two latest Apple gadgets. Apple has now released its technology news data regarding the launch of its iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S and the sales that they were achieved over their opening weekend, which did manage to break records. The manufacturer did not release any of the pre-sale data which left analysts scrambling to make predictions. The technology news from the first weekend that the iPhones were for sale – which included all three of the initial days that…
Read MoreSurvey shows that the upcoming Apple iPhone 5’s demand is ‘unprecedented’
A recent survey performed by RBC/ChangeWave has determined that the demand for the iPhone 5, which will soon be released by Apple, is “unprecedented”, as 31 percent of its participants stated that they will probably purchase the handset once it becomes available. Analyst Mike Abramsky released the survey results, which involved the participation of 2,200 participants who responded between August 2 and August 10, 2011. It found that the pre-launch demand for the iPhone 5 is even greater than that of the iPhone 4, according to a similar survey that…
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