IDC Predicts Smartphone Market Pick Up
Worldwide smartphone shipment growth will rebound in 2017 to 4.2 percent, and 4.4 percent in 2018, after the category’s lowest annual growth rate of 2.5 percent last year, IDC forecast. Expect unit smartphone shipments of 1.53 billion in 2017, growing…
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to 1.77 billion in 2021, it said. Android, forecast to ship 1.3 billion smartphones this year, will eventually see a decline, but the researcher doesn’t see a point during the forecast period where shipments will fall, amid introduction of features including augmented and virtual reality. Despite concerns over longer life cycles affecting demand, “so far we are not seeing any trend,” said analyst Ryan Reith. Non-phablet smartphone shipments declined 9.4 percent, analyst Anthony Scarsella told us.