Smartphone shipments slightly decreased in 2019 due to a further slowing in the replacement rate. Despite the flatlining market, the top three brands all increased their volume in the region. This led to increased brand concentration. The top three brands represented 66.5% of the market – more than 5% more than in 2018. “Motorola led…
It is a well-known fact that the sale of smartphones is always heading to prolific levels. While brand new smartphones are always being introduced in the market and there is a great demand for them, come rain or storm, the global market for used smartphones is all the rage as well. We are all well-acquainted…
Within a couple of months, the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) that emerged from the city of Wuhan has spread across China and the world. It bears some resemblance to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), though less lethal but more contagious. To curb the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese government issued a strict travel ban…
As a product launched by Apple in 2016, iPhone7 is still loved by users up to now. But as an old version, there is a common and invisible problem in this used iPhone device: camera aging. The aging on camera structure after long period of using may easily cause black spots appearing on the camera…
While Wuhan pneumonia is already slashing smartphone production on a global level, it has also affected consumer confidence in the used phone wholesale market. In fact, as of 13th February 2020, used mobile phone suppliers in Mainland China have not resumed work in this field owing to the fear of the transmission and spread of…
The market for used smartphones is steadily on the rise around the globe. According to a December 2019 study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), despite a recent slump, the global refurbished mobile phone wholesale and used mobile phone industry is predicted to continue a stable pattern of upward growth over the next several years,…
First, let’s review what major updates the mobile phone industry had had in 2019. 1. Communication It can be said that the year of 2019 was the birth year of commercial 5G. Looking back at the development of the mobile phone industry this year, many companies including Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and others had launched their…
According to the latest forecast from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 1.5% year over year in 2020 with shipments volumes just over 1.4 billion. IDC expects 190 million 5G smartphones to ship in 2020, accounting for 14% of total smartphones shipped, which far exceeds the…
Apple captured 32% of overall global revenue in the mobile phone industry and 66% of all profit in the third quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research. In distant second? Samsung, with just 17% of profit, in spite of growing 8.4% year-over-year in Q3, and selling between 20 to 30% of all mobile…