Over the past month IDC, Counterpoint, and Strategic Analytics have all released their smartphone shipment estimates for 2018 but today it’s the turn of Gartner who, overall, is rather pessimistic about the fourth quarter.

According to the data gathered, a total of 408.4 million smartphones were shipped between October 1 and December 31. This represents year-on-year growth of just 0.1% or 500,000 units. The biggest brands throughout the period were Samsung, Apple, and Huawei followed by Oppo and Xiaomi. Interestingly enough, though, only two of these companies experienced growth.

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