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  "id": 14302623,
  "title": "Mobile phone sales plunge to lowest level in 14 years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/mobile-phone-sales-plunge-to-lowest-level-in-14-years",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-13T13:54:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Computerworld",
    "slug": "computerworld",
    "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4234747/cell-phone-sales-plunge-lowest-level-in-14-years.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "New market research from Counterpoint Research shows that global smartphone sales fell by 20% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period a year ago. This is the lowest level for a third quarter since 2012. The decline is attributed to the ongoing shortage of memory components , where sharply rising prices for DRAM and NAND memory have driven up manufacturing costs.…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}