Global smartphone recovery hampered by component shortages

The Q4 21 global smartphone shipment numbers show the recovery from the Covid slump of 2020 has been hampered by the chip crisis.
Strategy Analytics was first out of the block this time, so we’re using their numbers. We use whoever offers numbers first so previous quarter, and thus full-year, tallies in the table we present below may differ from SA’s. It doesn’t really matter, though, since all analyst numbers are educated guesses anyway, and the variation isn’t that grea