Smartphones Continue To Shine Despite An Overall Plunge In Mobile Phone Sales, Says Gartner Mobile handset sales plunged notabl

Mobile handset sales plunged notably in the first quarter of this year as consumers purchased 25 million fewer handsets than in the same period a year ago, but smartphones sales continued soaring up in spite of the deepening recession, according to the analyst firm Gartner.In its quarterly study of the cellphone market, Gartner found that the overall sales of handsets declined considerably by 8.6 percent in the first quarter of the year, touching a new historic low of...