The sales of smartphones declined globally last year for the first time

Last year, the sales of smartphones in the world market dropped by 0.5 percent, causing a downturn for the first time.

According to the data of the American International Data Corporation (IDC), information and telecommunications market researcher, 1.46 billion smartphones were sold worldwide, 99.9 percent of them have iOS or Android operating systems (85.1 percent Android and 14.8 percent iOS). (MTI)