Smartphone sales grew 10.8% in Q2 2021: Report

Global smartphone sales to end users totalled 328.8 million in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of 10.8 per cent year over year, a new report said on Wednesday.

According to a report by Gartner, overall global mobile phone sales grew 10.2 per cent despite supply constraints due to Covid-19 related production disruption and component shortages.

“Reinforced shelter-in-place instructions and factory shut-downs in India and Vietnam due to the second wave of Covid-19, along with closure of retail businesses and restrictions on online deliveries affected smartphone sales negatively in the second quarter after a strong start in beginning of 2021,” said Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner said in a statement.