Mobile sales may fizzle out after festive surgeIndia's smartphone market is bracing for a challenging phase as analysts forecast a decline in sales. The anticipated decrease in shipments...
11 Nov, 2025, 12.06 PM IST
Smartphone sales to stay weak this festive season despite early discountsSmartphone sales are predicted to be weak this festive season. Industry trackers have reduced annual shipment forecasts for 2025. This is d...
09 Sep, 2025, 08.07 AM IST
Counterpoint Research cuts 2025 global smartphone shipment growth amid tariff uncertaintyThe downgrade signals challenges for manufacturers that already face weakening sales amid heightened geopolitical tensions and escalating t...
04 Jun, 2025, 01.08 PM IST
Polls and weather take a toll on smartphone sales in June quarterThe smartphone market in the June quarter is likely to be tepid due to the impact of elections, heatwaves, and floods, leading some market ...
24 Jun, 2024, 08.11 AM IST
Smartphones get growth signal for 2024The rebound is expected after the Indian smartphone market fell in volume terms for two years as demand in the entry-level segment got hit ...
26 Nov, 2023, 08.41 AM IST
'Smartphone shipments to stay flat in 2023 despite festive uptake'Counterpoint Research expects a 2% year-on-year decline to 149 million units and the fourth quarter to register shipment growth after a fla...
23 Nov, 2023, 09.34 AM IST
Gartner revises 2022 mobile sales estimates to fall 7.1%Mobile phone shipments in 2022 is expected to fall to 1.46 billion units from 1.57 billion, and Gartner's earlier forecast of 1.60 billion.
30 Jun, 2022, 02.09 PM IST
Rising inflation forces sharp cut in 2022 smartphone shipment forecastsThis slowdown in growth or degrowth story is playing out inside offline retail stores, more than the online ecommerce platforms, say execut...
06 Jun, 2022, 08.21 AM IST
Global smartphone sales growth to decline at 11.3% in 2015: IDClobal smartphone sales are likely to grow at a lower rate of 11.3 per cent this year as compared to 27.6 per cent in 2014, impacted by a sl...
27 May, 2015, 10.40 PM IST
Device shipments at 1.19 billion units in APAC this year, says research firm GartnerThe increase in device shipments is mainly driven by 4.1 per cent growth in the mobile phone segment as cheaper priced smartphones stimulat...
01 Apr, 2015, 08.01 PM IST
Preference for large smartphones eating into tablet salesIDC has revised its global tablet shipments downwards by over 6 million units to 221.3 million this year.
04 Dec, 2013, 05.09 PM IST
Opportunity for premium class smartphones ending: GartnerAndroid will remain the leading device operating system (OS), as it is on pace to account for 38 per cent of shipments in 2013, it said.
27 Oct, 2013, 12.19 PM IST
Microsoft acquiring Nokia not to impact smartphone shipmentsAcquisition of handset major Nokia by software giant Microsoft will not impact smartphone shipments substantially, research firm Gartner sa...
21 Oct, 2013, 06.55 PM IST
Tablet PCs, smartphones' sales to grow 9 per cent in 2013: GartnerThe proliferation of lower-priced tablets and their growing capability is accelerating the shift from PCs to tablets.
04 Apr, 2013, 07.04 PM IST
Smartphone shipments to reach 1.7 billionSmartphones will outperform the overall market for mobile phones, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 24.9% for the period 2011-17.
04 May, 2012, 01.10 PM IST
- Upwardly mobile 2012: Hyper-innovation to drive smartphone, mobile growth
Taking a longer term view of the market, the play of feature phones is expected to remain strong throughout the forecast period of CY2011-2...
26 Dec, 2011, 04.43 AM IST
- Europe woes, iPhone surge to hit most handset vendors
Top global cellphone makers are set to report a disappointing quarter, hit by euro zone debt problems and the roaring success of smartphone...
14 Jul, 2010, 04.33 PM IST