Huawei beats Apple again for second place in global smartphone shipments, as Samsung struggles

The global smartphone industry is “effectively in a recession”, according to the latest Strategy Analytics research, a view largely shared b...

The global smartphone industry is “effectively in a recession”, according to the latest Strategy Analytics research, a view largely shared by the International Data Corporation (IDC), as the two highly respected market intelligence firms just simultaneously released their respective Q3 2018 reports.

The actual numbers differ slightly, but the general idea is the same. Worldwide smartphone shipments have yet again declined, by anywhere between 6 and 8 percent compared to last year’s July - September quarter, to either 355 or 360 million units.

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