Smartphone sales to flatten out in 2018 as devices fail to impress

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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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Samsung takes lead in rapidly growing Indian smartphone market

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Vendors shipped an estimated 80 million units of the mobile phones in the country during Q1,Q2 and Q3. The Indian smartphone market is continuing its massive growth rate, having increased by 29 percent last quarter, says research firm CMR. Shipments of the devices are expected to reach the 262 million units mark for the year, by the end of the fourth quarter. This most recent forecast is based on the fact that 80 million mobile handset units shipped by last quarter. CMR data showed that the Indian smartphone market has…

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Mobile technology news breaks with new smartphone shipment predictions

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A recent prediction has suggested that there will be 1.25 billion shipments before the end of 2014. ABI Research has recently released a new series of projections that are making mobile technology news based on data that has been gleaned from the MMW’s data that has been collected over the last few months. The firm has stated that by the close of this year, smartphone shipments will have broken the 1.25 billion mark. That said, what has been considered to be the true mobile technology news is the growth that…

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Gadgets sales plummet at BlackBerry

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The already struggling company has taken a massive hit and has just announced that it is forced to slash 4,500 jobs. Following last week’s announcement of the launch of new gadgets, and adding its BBM messenger service to the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android, BlackBerry has now also revealed that it is slashing 4,500 jobs from its workforce, writing off unsold phones worth over $900 million, and leaving certain sectors of the consumer wireless market. These are the company’s latest moves in a scramble to rescue itself…

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Mobile commerce report shows Huawei in top third spot in 2014 Q4

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According to the IDC, the company was registered in the number three position behind Apple and Samsung. The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its Q4 report regarding mobile commerce, which revealed that Huawei has skyrocketed into the third position of smartphone vendors worldwide. This is the first time that the company has made this considerable achievement. According to the IDC mobile commerce report, Huawei maintained a 4.9 percent share of the market, based on the total number of units shipped. This may be considerably less than the 29 percent…

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