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Global smartphone sales to end-users fell by 5.7% year-on-year to 366 million units in the third quarter, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that the Chinese vendor Xiaomi moved ahead of Apple during the quarter to become the third-ranked smartphone vendor globally.

Global sales of smartphones fell by a fifth (20.4%) in the second quarter of the year, the technology research firm Gartner says, adding that this meant only 295 million units were sold during the period.

Smartphone sales to end users fell globally by 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020 year-on-year, the technology research firm Gartner says, attributing this decline to both the lockdown and the economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The world will witness a 13.6% drop in shipments of devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — in 2020, meaning that total shipments will be 1.9 billion units, the tech research firm Gartner has forecast.

The outbreak of coronavirus in China's Hubei province will hit smartphone inventories in international markets significantly, an analyst from the technology research firm Gartner says.