Following on from our industry predictions published earlier this week,
Mobile News also asked the industry analysts for their predictions for the year ahead.
As mentioned in the previous roundup of predictions, nobody foresaw 2020 being crippled by a global pandemic.
This will continue throughout 2021 according to the analysts, as the global economy attempts to bounce back.
Here’s what the analysts have had to say.
Ben Wood, CCS Insight chief of research
At CCS Insight we expect the shift to online and phone sales will continue apace and predict that three-quarters of phones bought in the UK in 2021 will be sold online or over the phone.
Following on from our industry predictions published earlier this week,
Mobile News also asked the industry analysts for their predictions for the year ahead.
As mentioned in the previous roundup of predictions, nobody foresaw 2020 being crippled by a global pandemic.
This will continue throughout 2021 according to the analysts, as the global economy attempts to bounce back.
Here’s what the analysts have had to say.
Ben Wood, CCS Insight chief of research
At CCS Insight we expect the shift to online and phone sales will continue apace and predict that three-quarters of phones bought in the UK in 2021 will be sold online or over the phone.
Paul Lipscombe
December 4, 2020
Challengers like China’s Xiaomi and Oppo are staking a claim for a top-three slot globally. How will it pan out?
The battle for positions in the global smartphone arena has changed significantly over the past 18 months.
Huawei was previously tipped by many industry analysts to take top spot from Samsung long-term, with the success of handsets such as its P20, P30 and Mate 20 range shaking up the smartphone space and challenging the dominance of Samsung and Apple.
But the Chinese vendor’s momentum hit a bump in May 2019, when the Trump Administration placed the vendor on the so- called Entity List in the US.