A slowdown in smartphone sales in China is cooling the global market for the devices, research firm IDC said Tuesday. "Smartphone volume still has a lot of opportunity in the years to come, but two fundamental segments driving recent years' growth are starting to slow," said analyst Ryan Reith. "As reported earlier in May, smartphone shipments in China actually declined year over year in the first quarter of 2015, showing that the largest market in the world has reached a level of maturity where rapid growth will be harder to achieve." Reith said China has been a key driver of Android, accounting for 36 percent of total volume in 2014.



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