Smartphone sales grew 26% in Q1 2021: Gartner

Global smartphone sales grew 26 per cent in Q1 2021 after a sleep decline during 2020, a new report by Gartner suggests. “The improvement in consumer outlook sustained learning and working from home, along with pent-up demand from 2020 boosted sales of smartphones in the first quarter,” Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner said.

“Consumers started spending on discretionary items as the pandemic situation improved in many parts of the world and markets opened up. However, one cannot ignore that the base for comparison is also lower in 2020 than it was in 2019. This explains the double-digit growth,” Gupta adds.