LONDON: Smartphone sales worldwide would decline by 2.5 percent in 2019, which would be the worst decline ever, a new report by Gartner Inc. said on Thursday.
Global shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — will total 2.2 billion units in 2019, a decline of 3.3 percent year-over-year (YoY).
The mobile phone market is set to record the worst performance of these device types, declining by 3.8 percent.
“The current mobile phone market of 1.7 billion shipments is around 10 percent below the 1.9 billion shipments reached in 2015,” Ranjit Atwal, Research Director at Gartner, said in a statement.
“If mobile phones don’t provide significant new utility, efficiency or experiences, users won’t upgrade them, and will consequently increase these devices” life spans.”
The trend for lengthening mobile phone life span began in 2018 and will continue through 2019.
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