Q2 2018 was a very good fiscal quarter for some models of smartphone-s, according to some information that appeared during this day, those from IHS Markit revealing something that some probably already knew. More precisely, according to those from IHS, in Q2 2018 45% of smartphones sold globally had wide screens, that is, they had an aspect ratio greater than 16:9, their popularity increasing from month to month another, as is normal.
Smartphones that have wide screens exploded in popularity in Q1 2018, even managing to overtake those with screens of 6 inches or larger quite quickly, and this is an interesting thing. Practically, users prefer these types of screens in favor of very large ones, and here a very big role was played by those from Apple, Samsung, or Xiaomi, who launched many smartphone models of this kind in the last year.
Here are the Smartphone Models that EXPLODED in Popularity
As you can see in the image above, including smartphones that have a dual camera are more popular than those that have screens larger than 6 inches and a standard camera, something that is quite rare these days. In any case, phones with wide screens seem to attract the interest of a growing number of people, and in combination with very thin bezels for the screens, they will become the main choice for even more consumers in the coming fiscal quarters.
"Smartphones with wide-aspect-ratio displays greater than 16:9 accounted for 45 percent of global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2018. For smartphone shipments from the 19 leading smartphone brands, the share of smartphones with wide displays exceeded 50 percent. In the second quarter of 2018, 153 million smartphones with wide displays shipped globally."
The smartphone market has changed a lot in the last year, with Apple setting the tone for a substantial reduction in the edges of the screens, some manufacturers even managing to take it forward in terms of screen design. The market will evolve at an equally alert pace in the coming years as it reaches global saturation and there will be a growing desire of people to buy phones that really stand out with innovative functions.
