Sony shipped a record-low number of smartphones in Q1 2019

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One year ago, Sony forecasted 10 million smartphone sales for the financial year ending March 2019. Months later, it revised this figure down to 9 million and then to 7 million. This January, another revision dropped it to 6.5 million and bingo! That’s how many smartphones Sony actually shipped (via Xperia Blog) during the 12-month period.

The latest figure is a far cry from the almost 40 million smartphone Sony sold during the 2014 financial year, but things get even worse when broken ...