EGHAM, United Kingdom - For the first time since 2004, smartphone sales to consumers declined in the fourth quarter of 2017 from the same three months a year before as people keep their phones longer or upgrades slow. Gartner reported global sales of smartphones to end users totaled nearly 408 million units in the fourth
EGHAM, UK - Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 383 million units in the third quarter of 2017, a 3 percent increase over the same period in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. All of the top five smartphone vendors achieved double-digit growth apart from Apple, which achieved a 5.7 percent increase. "Despite market
EGHAM, United Kingdom - Global sales of smartphones topped 1.4 billion units in 2015, up a whopping 14.4 percent from the year before, Gartner Inc. said in a report released Thursday. But in the fourth quarter of last year, smartphone sales only increased 9.7 percent from the same three months in 2014, the slowest growth
