Global Mobile Device Sales Up 16.5% in 2Q 12/8/2011

Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, up 16.5 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner Inc. The channel built up stock at the end of the first quarter of 2011 in preparation of possible component shortages following the Japanese earthquake. As a result, sell-in demand slowed in the second quarter of 2011 to 421.1 million units, down 4.4 percent decrease from the previous quarter. Sales of smartphones were up 74 percent year-on-year and accounted for 25 percent ...

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