The mobile phone market declined as users bought 25m fewer phones than in the first quarter last year, but sales of smartphones grew as Apple doubled its smartphone market share Mobile phone sales fell by 8.6% to 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, according to , but smartphone sales grew by 12.7% to 36.4 million units. This was "the biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction...
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