
Smartphone shipments down in the last quarter
Samsung is the King of the Smartphones
Companies shipped 1.35 billion smartphones in 2021, a 5.7 per cent increase over the previous year, market researcher IDC said Thursday. However, supply chain issues meant that fewer phones were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2021 than in the same period a year earlier.

Smartphones are giving way to smart feature phones
At least in poorer countries
Millions of first-time internet consumers are ignoring the smartphone dream of Steve Jobs in favour of something that does the job better and cheaper.