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Global smartphone shipments tanked by 20.4 percent due to the pandemic – Yahoo News Australia
Of the major phone manufacturers, only Apple saw a relatively small decline in sales.
A new report from Gartner says global smartphone sales dropped 20.4 percent to 295 million in Q2 2020. And as you might have guessed, the coronavirus pandemic played a significant role. “Travel restrictions, retail closures and more prudent spending on nonessential products during the pandemic led to the second consecutive quarterly decline in smartphone sales this year,” said Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner.
Of the major phone manufacturers, only Apple came out relatively uns…
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