IDC has an early guess at the Q1 2017 smartphone market

Analyst firm IDC has published ‘preliminary’ smartphone shipment numbers several days before Apple announces its own, which anticipate further growth.
Apple always announces its device shipments numbers during its quarterly earnings announcement, which is due to take place late on 2 May. Samsung doesn’t publish its numbers but tends not to even offer guidance to analysts until Apple has shown its hand, which makes it likely IDC has taken a bit of a punt on those too.
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