{"id":751209,"date":"2013-05-14T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=522654"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:50:32","slug":"samsung-apple-and-others-escape-as-slumping-feature-phone-sales-haunt-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751209","title":{"rendered":"Samsung, Apple and others escape as slumping feature phone sales haunt Nokia"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/q1-2013-cell-phone-sales-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/nokia-store.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Q1 2013 Cell Phone Sales\" title=\"Q1 2013 Cell Phone Sales\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The PC market isn't the only tech sector in trouble.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/samsung-smartphone-sales-q1-2013\/\">According to Gartner's new numbers<\/a>, Asia-Pacific is the only region in the world where mobile phone volumes are still growing. Phone sales in the United States are now dropping at 9% annualized pace. Globally, phone volumes were practically flat in Q1 2013, inching up a mere 0.7% year-over-year. Smartphone growth came in at a torrid 43% during the quarter, several points above what was expected a few months ago. This contrast means that feature phone sales are in a real free fall. This is particularly clear in Latin America, where even the hot smartphone growth is not enough to prevent overall phone sales from declining by nearly 4%.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/q1-2013-cell-phone-sales-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/N_s0guWQgjk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PC market isn&#8217;t the only tech sector in trouble.\u00a0According to Gartner&#8217;s new numbers, Asia-Pacific is the only region in the world where mobile phone volumes are still growing. Phone sales in the United States are now dropping at 9% annualized pace. Globally, phone volumes were practically flat in Q1 2013, inching up a mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}