Smartphone market grows 42.6%

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An astonishing 118.1m mobile phones were shipped across the world by vendors in the third quarter of this year. That's a 42.6% rise on the same period last year. Even more eye-catching is the fact that this rate of growth was lower than the 49.1% analysts IDC had predicted, and lower still than this year's second quarter growth of 66.7%. That lower level of growth is attributed to the delayed launch of Apple's new iPhone.

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