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Global mobile handset sales fell 9.4 percent year on year to 269.1 million units in the first quarter, even as smartphone sales rose 12.7 percent to 36.4 million units, according to Gartner.
Overall, the mobile-device market recorded its biggest quarter-to-quarter contraction since the research firm began monitoring the market on a quarterly basis in 2001, said Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi. "This was also the first time the market contracted year over year during the first quarter, a period traditionally helped by strong seasonality in the Asia/Pacific market," she said.
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