Smartphone shipments may have tanked due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but it looks like PC makers have seen an uptick. IDC, Gartner, and Canalys all released reports this week that shows PC shipments were up during the second quarter of 2020 when compared with the same period a year ago. Each of the research […]
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IDC: Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel devices in 2019
Google’s Pixel line of smartphones tend to have great cameras, good software, and… relatively limited appeal, if market share is anything to go by. While Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo continue to dominate the smartphone space in terms of shipment volume, Google has yet to crack the top 10 list. But according to IDC […]
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Smartphone shipments tank in response to the global pandemic
Demand for personal computers may be up due to all the people working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it looks like demand for smartphones is down… way down. Research from IDCÂ and Canalys shows that smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2020 were down by 12 to 13 percent compared with the same […]
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PC shipments grew in 2019 for the first time in 7 years
Smartphone shipments may have skyrocketed in the past decade, but apparently there’s still a place for personal computers. Research firms Gartner and IDC have both released reports suggesting that PC shipments were up in 2019, making it the first year since 2011 that PC shipments were up year-over-year. The increase was a modest one… and […]
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Wearable gadget shipments nearly doubled in a year (thanks to smart earbuds)
Wearable electronic devices had a record quarter according to new figures from research firm IDC. The company has put out a report estimating that 84.5 million “wearable devices” were shipped in the third quarter of 2019, which is nearly twice as many as shipped during the same period a year earlier. Why the big boom? […]
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Lilbits 358: Ryzen-powered “Zork” Chromebook on the way (if it’s not eaten by a grue)
Acer and HP unveiled the first Chromebooks powered by AMD processors this year and they’re… cheap laptops with cheap, low-power processors. If you’d been holding out for a Chromebook with a more powerful AMD Ryzen processor, it looks like you might not have to wait forever. Kevin Tofel from About Chromebooks spotted references in Chromium […]
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Smartphone shipments declines in 2018, for better or worse
Phone makers shipped about 4 percent fewer smartphones in 2018 than the year before according to reports out this week from IDC and Counterpoint Research. IDC says that makes 2018 the “worst year ever for smartphone shipments,” as measured by growth (or shrinkage, in this case). But it’s also worth looking at the possible explanations […]
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7 Comments on CPU shortages and trade wars contributing to declining PC shipments (according to IDC and Gartner)
CPU shortages and trade wars contributing to declining PC shipments (according to IDC and Gartner)
7 Comments on CPU shortages and trade wars contributing to declining PC shipments (according to IDC and Gartner)In what’s become a familiar set of headlines in recent years, market research firms IDC and Gartner have put out a pair of press releases showing that PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2018 were down from the same period a year earlier… and that overall PC shipments in 2018 were lower than in […]
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Smartphone shipments are falling, but Chinese brands are picking up steam
Smartphone makers shipped fewer phones in the third quarter of 2018 than they did during the same period a year earlier. If that statement sounds familiar, it’s because you could say the same thing about the last four quarters, according to reports out this week from IDC and Strategy Analytics. While the two reports differ […]
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IDC: Tablet shipments are down, Apple continues to trounce the competition
Tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2018 were down about 13.5 percent from the same period a year earlier according to a new report from research firm IDC. But that doesn’t necessarily spell doom for the tablet market. IDC predicts that we could see growth in the 2-in-1 space as more Windows, Chrome OS, […]