245 million handsets were shipped in Q1, 2009, down 13% from the same period last year. Or, as the analyst puts it, “the fastest ever decline in annual shipment growth since the modern cellphone industry began in 1983”. Strategy Analytics predicts that Q2 will only be slightly better, with a 10% year-on-year fall in handset shipments.

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