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.
