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Market research firm IDC has released its figures for worldwide smartphone sales in the second quarter of 2009, and while the number are an improvement over the first quarter of the year, shipments were still off 10.8 percent compared to the same quarter of 2008. And that first quarter was even worse than IDC thought: IDC has revised its shipment figures for the first quarter to a 17.1 percent year-on-year decline, even steeper than the 15.8 percent it initially reported.
Mobile phones were shipped at an eye-popping rate during this year’s first quarter, a juicy 10% rise from last year’s numbers at the same period, but not enough to beat the previous quarter.
A new report in today from research house IDC says while the worldwide mobile phone market saw some 256.4 million units ship in the first quarter, that number is 13.8% lower than quarter before.
"The first quarter of 2007 marks the first quarter of slower growth in the mobile phone market, a significant change from the growth exhibited each quarter during all of 2006," states IDC.
Market research firm IDC offered up some bleak numbers for the makers of handheld PDAs and personal information managers (PIMs) driven by pens or keypads: worldwide shipments slumped to 5.5 million units in 2005, with just 1.5 million units shipped in the final quarter of 2006. The numbers represent a decline of 28.5 percent when comparing 2006 to 2005; if you take just the final quarter of those years, the numbers represent a 35.9 percent decline. And IDC only expects the trend to continue during 2007.
A new report from market research firm IDC finds that cell phone shipments during 2006 reached a new peak: more than one billion units shipped during the calendar year. According to IDC, the year’s 1.019 billion cell phones represents a 22.5 percent increase over 2005 shipments, and most of the credit goes to emerging markets rather than phone-saturated areas like North America, Japan, and western Europe.
Although more than two million handheld digital devices were sold over the 2005 holiday season, research firm IDC reports that the beginning of 2006 saw the ninth consecutive decline in handheld device sales worldwide.
For IDC, “handheld devices” doesn’t include smartphones: instead, the term refers to PIMs and pocket-sized devices (either pen- or keypad-based) which are used to run applications, access data, view multimedia, and play games. The devices can can be synched with computers and may include wireless Internet capabilities. IDC counts only branded unit, and discounts all OEM sales from manufacturers.
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