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Smartphone makers shipped a record 1.4 billion devices in 2015
Smartphone global shipments grew 12 percent and hit a record 1.4 billion devices in 2015, according to Strategy Analytics. That doesn't mean all's well in the industry, though -- not when it's no longer expanding as fast as it did in the past. In the fourth quarter of 2015, shipments grew merely six percent from the same period in 2015. The research company says that's the industry's slowest growth rate of all time, most likely because the people in major markets like China who are inclined to use smartphones already have one.
