Smartphone boom lifted phone market in first quarter (Reuters)
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Strong obligation for smartphones continuing to increase coverall cellphone mart volumes in January-March, investigate firms said on Friday.
IDC saw January-March mart ontogeny of 20 percent, boosted also by strong gains by small vendors as the threesome maximal sound makers -- Nokia, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics -- forfeited mart share.
Strategy Analytics estimated phone shipments grew 17 proportionality from a assemblage ago, unvoluntary by surging smartphone obligation in grown regions and progressively favourite models with binary SIM game in aborning markets.
"The prototypal quarter of 2011 was scarred by supply-chain disruptions attendant to the Nihon seism tragedy and by current temperate factor constraints in areas much as touchscreens, module and cameras," said Neil Mawston, analyst at Strategy Analytics.
Mawston said factor shortages would move for at least the next 6 to 9 months, causing limited volumes or rising signaling prices, but effective challenges from this would rest secondary for most manufacturers.
(Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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