
Gartner has released a fresh forecast for the global consumer PC and mobile market.It takes into account PCs, notebooks, Ultrabooks, tablets, and cell phones.Image source: pixabay.com / kaboompicsIn 2021, total sales in those categories were 2.07 billion units, an increase of 5.5% over the previous year.Personal computers, meanwhile, were up 11.0% to 342 million units, while handsets saw a 5.0% increase to 1.57 billion.Tablet sales declined 0.8 percent to about 156 million units.This year, the market is forecast to be in the red: total shipments of devices in all categories will decline by 7.6 percent.The final result will be 1.91 billion units.Image source: Gartner PC sales could decline 9.5 percent to 310 million units in 2022.The tablet segment is expected to decline by 9.0% to 142 million units.As for cellular phones, according to analysts, their shipments will decrease by 7.1% - to 1.46 billion.If we consider only the direction of smartphones, the demand for them this year will fall by 5.8%.At the same time, shipments of 5G devices in annual terms will jump by 29%, amounting to about 710 million units.
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