Smartphone craze falling? Market to see first single-digit growth year

The year 2015 is going to be the first year of single-digit worldwide smartphone growth, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC).
IDC predicts worldwide smartphone shipments will grow 9.8 percent in 2015 to a total of 1.43 billion units.
IDC updated its previous forecast to reflect slowing growth in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), Latin America, and western Europe.
The slower growth is expected to intensify slightly over the 2015-19 forecast period and is largel