Smartphone business on the up according to a report from IDC, they have confirmed that smartphone shipments continue to grow as overall mobile phone shipments continually decline.
Apparently global mobile phone shipments dropped some 15.8 percent in Q1 of 09 with 244 million handsets shipped as compared to 290 million in Q1 last year.
Obviously the mobile phone market is beginning to feel the tightness of the economic downturn, however, in the case of smartphone business, smartphone shipments grew some 4 percent in Q1 of 09, and therefore it appears that smartphone continue to defy the present economic conditions.
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