Smartphones sales in 2021 increased by 5.3 %, a percentage lower than IDC's initial forecasts.

This week, we learned that the latest Blackberry OS devices go out for the last time.At the same time, Apple has been celebrated for the first time in the history of the United States to have reached a market capitalization of $ 3,000 billion!The last happy new year of Blackberry was in 2010.In September 2010, Rim represented 37.3 % of all smartphones users, according to Comscore.Apple and Google, on the other hand, had captured 24.3 % and 21.4 % respectively.In December 2010, Rim had lost more than five points at 31.6 % while Google had earned more than seven to reach 28.7 %.It was nothing more than a descent from there for Blackberry.

There have always been brands that have turned off, but if this time was Form Factor?

25 years ago, on August 15, 1996, Nokia launched the Nokia 9000 Community.Capable of sending and receiving emails and accessing the web via its 9.6 kbit/s modem, the Communicator was ahead of its time.And even if no one called him at the time, it was in fact one of the first smartphones on the market.It would take approximately an additional decade and a stroke of genius from Steve Jobs to relaunch the smartphones market, which really took off after the release of the first iPhone in 2007, which sounded the era of modern smartphones for touch screen.

Meanwhile, the landscape of smartphones has actually turned into a duopoly in recent years, after Ios d'Apple and Android from Google have ousted any other platform, including Windows Phone from Microsoft, Blackberry OS and theSamsung mobile operating system called Bada.According to IDC, Android devices represented 84.1 % of global smartphones expeditions in 2020, Apple iOS representing the remaining 15.9 %.In 2010, the combined market share of Android and iOS was less than 40 %, Nokia, Microsoft, Blackberry and others sharing the rest of the market.

14 years later, the boom of smartphones has calmed down a bit, the saturation of the market and the lack of real innovation that led to a drop in sales in recent years.And although the market has returned to positive growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 and continued on this momentum throughout the first half of 2021, it remains unlikely that smartphones deliveries return to the reached level in 2016 one day in 2016.At the time, Apple, Samsung and others had sent 1,473 million devices of devices, marking the peak of industry to date.In 2020, shipments had come back down to 1,292 million units, the lowest total since 2013.

While some experts think that the "cutting -edge smartphone" is already behind us, the IDC market research group hopes that the industry will return to the previous summits and even exceed them.In its latest sectoral forecasts, the company expects a major impulse of the 5G transition in 2021 and at low growth rates to a figure until 2025, when global shipments should exceed 1,500 million units.

Many of the main smartphone manufacturers in the world should launch new handsets in 2022.The market has dropped by almost double the planned rate due to the supply chain and logistical challenges.In addition, the shortage is more concentrated on 4G components than on 5G.So these challenges have changed our short -term forecasts for Android more than for iOS, which is now mainly 5G.World income from the 5G combined industry have almost tripled and expeditions have more than doubled per year during the third quarter of 2021 due to a strong thrust of 5G devices by Chinese suppliers and Apple joining the 5G era inThe end of 2020.Apple is the largest 5G combination supplier in the world in terms of deliveries and value.Samsung has retained its advanced position in LTE shipments and income in the third quarter of 2021.Samsung is also second in terms of 5G income.Combined income for the 5G of Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi has more than double its LTE income.

Many consumers looking for a new device this year will not envisage a flagship product due to their high prices.Fortunately, there are also many exciting mid -range smartphones that should be launched in the coming months.