Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time, Says IDC

An anonymous reader writes: Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This figure is up just 0.2 percent from the 334.3 million units in Q1 2015, marking the smallest year-over-year growth on record. We saw hints of this in yesterday's Apple earnings report, when the company reported an iPhone sales drop for the first time. Despite the poor state of the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung continues to dominate. In Q1 2016, the South Korean company once again shipped more smartphones than any other vendor.

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Reached good enough.

[LWATCDR]

I don't need to replace my MotoX at all. It runs the latest version of the OS and works well.

Re:Reached good enough.

[npslider]

I feel the same about my iPhone 6. My hands are smaller, so a bigger device is too hard to use one handed. Further refinements to the software are always something I look forward to, but at its core, the phone does all I need it to do. The only reason I would upgrade is if my phone was lost or damaged beyond repair.

Re:Reached good enough.

[ljw1004]

My $75 smartphone isn't "good enough" - it's fine for most apps and phone tasks, but is too slow at complex webpages (usually because of ads, specifically video ads).

I wonder if there's still market opportunity for budget smartphones?

Waiting for vendors to get real

[WillAffleckUW]

Why should I shell out $500 every year when I can just wait until they have something that is a real improvement in three years?

And that fits in my fricking pocketses!

Re:I've never had one.

[inode_buddha]

Marry me?

Re:Product Maturity

[MightyMartian]

As low a creature as I am, at least I'm not an AC