Smartphone shipments plummet in Q1 as users, er, lock down their spending

Coronavirus + entity lists + people not keen to upgrade = 13% dive

Early forecasts of the Q1 smartphone sector made for grim reading, with appetite expected to be severely suppressed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent analysis from Canalys shows those forecasts were bang-on, with worldwide shipments into the channel falling by 13 per cent year-on-year, to just over 272 million units....