Mobile phone sales fall for the first time since 2009 - Telegraph.co.uk

Samsung and Apple continued to dominate the market, with the Korean giant selling 385 million phones in 2012, of which 53.5 per cent were smartphones, with Apple selling 130 million smartphones. Chinese company Huawei was third spot in worldwide smartphone sales for the first time in the fourth quarter, Gartner said, selling 27.2 million smartphones in 2012, an increase of 74 per cent. It expects around one billion smartphones to be sold in 2013, with overall mobile sales estimated to reach 1.9 million units. Gartner principal analyst Anshul Gupta said: "The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009. Tough economic conditions, shifting consumer preferences and intense market competition weakened the worldwide mobile phone market this year." In the fourth quarter of 2012, Samsung and Apple together raised their global smartphone market share to 52 per cent, up from 46.4 per cent from the previous quarter. Gartner said while the demand for iPhones in the fourth quarter, consumer demand favoured the less expensive iPhone 4 and 4S. It added the arrival of the iPad Mini also created a dilemma for some users when deciding if to upgrade an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S to an iPhone 5, or buy the new tablet. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHReAOqP7iBTDI-tLY_A3zM9tJacg&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/9867272/Mobile-phone-sales-fall-for-the-first-time-since-2009.html

Put the internet to work for you. via Personal Recipe 2598265