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Nickolas Diaz

THE TRUTH ABOUT: The us phone market struggled in q1 but one android maker made serious headway - The Untold Story

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What you need to know

  • Research company, Omdia, reported on the U.S. smartphone market for Q1 2026, stating it has dipped by 3% YoY.
  • The company says that rising memory and storage costs aided this decline, as well as "restrained carrier upgrades."
  • Samsung dropped 5% YoY, but it still led the charge for Android, taking up 24% of the market; however, Apple (down 3%) took the number one spot with 60%.
  • The only Android maker to go positive was Motorola, which marked an 18% growth in the U.S. smartphone market.
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