Global Mobile Sales Drop But Demand for Smartphones Still High
>> Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The international slowdown has drastically hit the mobile market. There is a huge fall in the global mobile phone sales. Against the odds the demand for smartphones has risen then it was actually in the past few months. After personal computers smartphones come into lime light as these are basically termed as mini-computers.
Reports are that in the initial quarter of this current year global mobile phone sale fell by 8.6 per cent which is around 269 million units. It occurred due to the extreme slowdown in the spending potential of customers. Predictions are that it may witness further decline by 4.2 per cent in the later part of this contemporary year.
Prior to this year the global mobile phone sales have been garnering attractive profits and the huge downfall in this quarter has been the biggest one ever recorded. Smartphones are exceptions in the mobile market. Perhaps this set of phones is climbing towards the graph of profits which is quite vividly visible by its sharp demand in the present market.
The high end range of smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s touchscreen 5800 gathered a sale record of 12.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year which covered approximately 36.4 million units. This record of sales is much higher than it was in the last year’s same quarter.
Reports are that in the initial quarter of this current year global mobile phone sale fell by 8.6 per cent which is around 269 million units. It occurred due to the extreme slowdown in the spending potential of customers. Predictions are that it may witness further decline by 4.2 per cent in the later part of this contemporary year.
Prior to this year the global mobile phone sales have been garnering attractive profits and the huge downfall in this quarter has been the biggest one ever recorded. Smartphones are exceptions in the mobile market. Perhaps this set of phones is climbing towards the graph of profits which is quite vividly visible by its sharp demand in the present market.
The high end range of smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s touchscreen 5800 gathered a sale record of 12.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year which covered approximately 36.4 million units. This record of sales is much higher than it was in the last year’s same quarter.
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