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Smartphone sales up 30%
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Even as smartphone sales in the emerging markets have brought cheer to handset makers with growth rate hitting 30 per cent year-on-year, analysts say the real challenge before the companies is to ma-ke money on such handsets in the affordable range, research firm IDC said.
New Delhi:Even as smartphone sales in the emerging markets have brought cheer to handset makers with growth rate hitting 30 per cent year-on-year, analysts say the real challenge before the companies is to ma-ke money on such handsets in the affordable range, research firm IDC said.
Buoyed by growing sales in emerging markets, smartphone shipments worldwide hit 327.6 million units in the July-September quarter, up 25.2 per cent compared to 261.7 million units shipped in the year-ago period despite rumours of a slowing market, it added.
Quarter-on-quarter the shipments rose 8.7 per cent above the 301.3 million units shipped in April-June quarter of 2014.
“We have finally reached a point where most developed markets are experiencing single-digit growth while emerging markets are still growing at more than 30 per cent, collectively," IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker programme director Ryan Reith said.
In these markets, smartphone price points are making mobile computing possible where it was once expected feature phones to remain dominant, he added.“This is great news for overall volumes, but the challenge has now bec-ome how to make money on devices that are quickly becoming commodity products. Outs-ide of Apple, many are struggling to do this," Mr Reith said.
A driving force behind the record smartphone volume was the combined effort of the vendors trailing market leaders Samsung and Apple, IDC said.
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