Smartphone shipments fall for third year in a row

guest · Sep 11, 2019

Smartphone shipments fall for third year in a row
5G could provide boost
September 11, 2019
https://www.techradar.com/news/smartphone-shipments-fall-for-third-year-in-a-row

Smartphone shipments are set to fall for the third consecutive year but improved market conditions and the launch of 5G networks will see the market return to growth in 2020.

New figures from IDC predict the number of devices sold in 2019 will be down 2.2 per cent, but the market will only contract by 0.4 per cent in the second half of the year. By 2020, growth will have risen to 1.6 per cent annually.
However the arrival of 5G devices – although not a silver bullet – will help return the sector to growth.
Smartphone shipments
"The global smartphone market and relevant supply chains remain uncertain, largely due to fluctuations in U.S-China trade negotiations, making future planning even more challenging than normal," said Sangeetika Srivastava, senior research analyst with IDC.

"To be clear, we don't think 5G will be the saviour in smartphones, but we do see it as a critical evolution in mobile technology. We expect the 5G ramp on smartphones to be more subtle than what we saw with 4G, but that is primarily because we are in a much different market today.”
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