Gartner sees smartphone recovery
 

5G is the cause

Beancounters at analyst outfit Gartner have been consulting their Tarot cards and rattling their collective bones to divine that there is a recovery underway for the smartphone market.

Third quarter smartphone figures from the analysts published today showed that smartphone unit sales were 366 million units, a decline of 5.7 percent globally compared to the same period last year. While this is pants, it is better than the first half of this year, when sales slumped by 20 percent in each quarter, due largely to the effects of COVID-19 on spending and consumer confidence overall.

Apparently there were other "signs following". There were a strong string of sales days over the Thanksgiving weekend, traditionally the “opening” of the holiday sales cycle. While sales on Thursday and Black Friday were at the lower end of predicted estimates, they still set records over previous years. With a lot of tech like smartphones often bought online, this could point to stronger numbers for smartphone sales as well.

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