global shipments
Even though demand for PCs has picked up after nearly five years of steep declines, industry watchers remain skeptical that the industry has anywhere to go but down.
Research firm IDC has predicted this week that smartphone shipments will hit 1.2 billion units this year, strong growth of 23 percent year-over-year.
According to the latest figures from Strategy Analytics, global mobile phone shipments reached 1.6 billion in 2012.
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