Gartner: smartphone sales to grow 11% in 2021, 5G to reach 35% share

[GSMArena]

The smartphone world will return to growth in 2021, according to Gartner's forecast. The researcher projects an 11.4% increase in sales over 2020, that would see more than 1.5 billion smartphones being shipped. The market recorded a 10.5% decline in 2020 due to the pandemic. A total of 1.378b phones were shipped, down from the 1.540b in 2019. Gartner expects the markets in the Asia Pacific, Western Europe and Latin America to see the strongest growth in 2021. China, specifically, is projected to consume 40 million phones more than last year. 5G phones will account for 35% of the...

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