IDC: Smartphone market sees unprecedented 18.3% decline during 2022's last quarter
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- 11 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 26 Jan 2023You dont get it. Little math here. Phone XYZ has fina... moreI'm not complaining there. and trust me if iphone is 1000 instead of 1200 they would sell way more than 1 000 000 to accomodate it. as someone who was working as a head of logistic its a simple math there. you wouldnt belive how 20% price decrease affects sales volume. in my branch people will buy chinese crap for 20% less than way better and well known brand. what do you mean how xiaomi got to 3rd position in just a few years? why oneplus was popular and now no one wants it? how sony declined? price matters to 95% of people. not for me tho. im earning well but that does not mean that i cannot speak against prices. They also made great midrangers that can handle 3-4 years so decliner was expected.
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- 01 Feb 2023
Honestly I haven't found a true reason to upgrade phones from 2017-2018 models as long as they work fine, unless there's no other choice.
No wonder why lack of innovation, price hikes, homogeniety, inflation etc that contribute to poor smartphone sales
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Jan 2023
Peter, 28 Jan 2023And I'm still waiting for the descent phone with notch... moreSony is what you are looking for.
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2023Imagine losing ALL your photos, videos, and memories to s__... moreOnly if you are using cheap China clone, that's for sure. I've been using my genuine SanDisk microSD card for three years now and not one suffers from file corruption whatsoever.
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Jan 2023
Market saturation with poor innovations plus price hike.
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- Spike
- xfi
- 28 Jan 2023
The less selling the better. They need to really make True Flagships
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- Peter
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- 28 Jan 2023
And I'm still waiting for the descent phone with notch-less display headphone jack and usb3!
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- S0w
- 28 Jan 2023
The main reason is the recesion that is about to happen, second reason is life getting more expensive, and third one, expensiver mid-range and high-end phones, that makes no sense for the feature pack they bring to the table.
Back 6 years ago you could have a high end with all the latest features of the time for 500-600$, now the same woops you above 1k.
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- 28 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2023microSD card is crazy unreliable if you buy cheap China clo... moreI can totally vouch for the importance of offline FM Radio on a smartphone since my mum's hometown always has bad internet reception. I can buy any flagship-grade phone I fancy, but I went for an LG V50 because it still has offline FM Radio functionality. And yes, I still frequently listen to FM Radio to this day.
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- 28 Jan 2023
madpiyal, 28 Jan 2023google scans through your google drive files and deletes th... moreIt's all about profit and money at the end of the day. To this day, I still applaud Sony for putting the headphone jack back on their flagship phone in 2020 after removing it for two years. Sony could have just continued doing so and asked everyone to buy their wireless earbuds, but they didn't.
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- madpiyal
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- 28 Jan 2023
google scans through your google drive files and deletes them as they please. So, think twice before advocating against micro sd card in a phone. Also, headphone jack should be there for environmental causes. Lithium batttery filled BT headphones, that die within a year or two, is one of the worst trend that Apple created recently. Worse sound quality+bad User experience+ charging n wasting energy + environmentally hazardous + expensive = Bluetooth headphones
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- Anonymous
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- 28 Jan 2023
AnonF-1006353, 27 Jan 2023Completely senseless statement! A 3.5mm jack doesn't c... moreI have a 6 years old 16GB Samsung Evo SD Card, which is used as primary storage on my P8 Lite 2017 all that time and still running flawless, of course it's really slow now but I never lost any data. People out there supporting removal of support from devices are nothing but corporate minions
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- 27 Jan 2023
Domestoboto, 27 Jan 2023I mean,
- the loss of the 3.5mm port is sad, but parts h... moreCompletely senseless statement! A 3.5mm jack doesn't cost thousands of dollars, and even cheap cabled IEMs still sound a lot better than the compressed SBC/AAC garbage over BT, if you equalize them to the same level in terms of bass and treble extension. Why not be able to use both, depending on use case.
Also, failing genuine microSDs are a rare exception, it's often the cheap chinese clones/counterfeit ones that fail.
Imagine paying $500 more for a phone just to have more space for media files and the 4/8k camcorder, when you could just add a genuine microSD 1TB for $150 or 512GB for $60. While still making backups as you would have to do with just more internal memory aswell. Also, think about how much 1TB of cloud storage costs you in 10 years, $800 at least, while you can just get a new microSD for way cheaper after let's say 5 years when you need more storage. While you still are the owner of your files, not some server room far away.
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- Anonymous
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- 27 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2023lol, clearly you have never visited the United States...then dead by mass shooting or addicted to some drug yea?
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- Anonymous
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- 27 Jan 2023
Domestoboto, 27 Jan 2023I mean,
- the loss of the 3.5mm port is sad, but parts h... moreImagine losing ALL your photos, videos, and memories to s_____ flash memory like what all microSDs are using!
Imagine not making backups 🤣🤣🤣
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- neo geo
- ajQ
- 27 Jan 2023
uninsteresting iterations ... look at z fold 5 to come , still they try to put an ultra wide mediocre camera!!! for a 2000 euro phone!!!
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- Anonymous
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- 27 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2023only tech reviewers, enthusiasts and loyalists buy a new on... morelol, clearly you have never visited the United States...
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- NoBot
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- 27 Jan 2023
Surprise, surprise.
Given the partially absurd price hikes (APPLE, Europe, but some chinese manufacturers as well), the overall creeping up of prices for the mid tier phone segment, the stagnation in innovation (or even worse: incrementalism getting the new normal), and the redicious artifical cutback of some essential features (charger, microSD card, telephoto lens, software support): what can seriously be expected?
Even the dumpest customer at some point realises when beeing bamboozled...
I am reliefed: the market is not dead, it was just temporarily disfunctional...
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- Anonymous
- gqb
- 27 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 27 Jan 2023"Micro Sds are crazy unreliable" - what an garbag... moreGlad to see someone still use common sense and not forever succumbed to the current trend. If they really think FM Radio and microSD card slot are irrelevant, they should know that cloud storage servers still use tapes. TAPES FFS!
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- Anonymous
- gqb
- 27 Jan 2023
Domestoboto, 27 Jan 2023I mean,
- the loss of the 3.5mm port is sad, but parts h... moremicroSD card is crazy unreliable if you buy cheap China clone. I've been using my genuine SanDisk microSD with factory-backed warranty for three years now and it's still smooth as butter since day one.
As for FM Radio, don't speak for others when there are still lots of people regardless of town or rural areas listen to it, even with the youngsters.