IDC: Samsung, Apple grow as phone market drops 4.1%
Global smartphone shipments dropped 4.1% year over year to 289.7 million units in the first quarter of 2026, ending 10 straight quarters of growth since mid-2023, according to the International…
IDC forecasts 1% growth in global smartphone shipments in 2025
Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to grow 1% year-on-year in 2025 to reach 1.24 billion units, according to the International Data Corp. (IDC). The figure is higher than its earlier…
IDC: Samsung takes back top spot as global phone market shipment grows
Samsung returned to the top of the global smartphone market shipment in the first quarter of 2025, according to new data from the International Data Corp. (IDC). The company was…
IDC: Android devices to drive smartphone shipment growth in 2025
Android is expected to grow 40% faster than iOS this year, with 2.5% year-on-year growth, fueled by 5.6% growth in China.
IDC projects GenAI smartphones to capture 70% market share by 2028
According to the market intelligence firm International Data Corp. (IDC), worldwide generative AI (GenAI) smartphone shipments are predicted to grow by 363.6% year over year in 2024, reaching 234.2 million…
Trade-in boosts used smartphone market— IDC
Preliminary data from International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates that used smartphone shipments will reach 282.6 million units in 2022, an 11.5% increase over the 253.4 million units shipped in 2021.…
Smartphone shipments to decline 9.1% YoY in 2022 — IDC
Based on the data from market intelligence firm International Data Corp. (IDC), smartphone shipments will decline by 9.1% in 2022, a reduction of 2.6 percentage points from the previous forecast.…