Report: Q2 smartphone sales growth slowest since 2013
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Gartner has released its analysis of the worldwide smartphone market for the last quarter. The report, uh, reports the market's lowest quarterly growth rate since 2013, as well as Android's all-time lowest year-on-year growth.
First, let's talk about smartphone sales in general. According to Gartner, vendors sold 330 million phones worldwide, which represented a 13.5% year-on-year increase. However, last quarter also saw the slowest growth in sales since 2013. The Eastern European, Middle East, Africa, and Asia and Pacific markets saw ...