IDC and Strategy Analytics cut global smartphone forecasts

Smartphone market trackers IDC and Strategy Analytics have both downgraded their 2016 full-year global smartphone shipment forecasts.
When they published their Q1 2016 numbers at the end of April IDC noted flat year-on-year global smartphone growth while SA reckoned it declined by 3%. Before those numbers came out IDC had forecast 5.7% growth for full-year 2016 and SA had estimated 7% growth. Now IDC has downgraded its forecast to 3.1% and SA is going for 4%.
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