Worldwide smartphone sales down 5% in Q4: Gartner

San Francisco: Smartphones sales worldwide declined 5.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020 which marks an improvement in the market compared to the sales slump in the full year, Gartner said on Monday.

Overall, global sales of smartphones declined 12.5 per cent in full year 2020.

The launch of the 5G iPhone 12 series helped Apple record double-digit growth in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Apple surpassed Samsung to retake the No. 1 global smartphone vendor spot, said the report.