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Smartphone online retail channel sales will account for 28% of total global smartphone sales in 2020, up from 24% in 2019, according to a new research report from Strategy Analytics.

OnePlus today announced that its more affordable smartphone - the OnePlus Nord will be launched on July 21.

In the first quarter of this year, quad-camera phones accounted for almost 20 percent of global smartphone shipments. OPPO, Xiaomi, Huawei and Samsung together account for 83 percent in the nearly 60 million quad-camera smartphone shipments globally, according to a Counterpoint report.

Duan Yongping, the founder and chairman of Dongguan-based BBK Electronics which is behind smartphone brands Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus and Realme, recently talked about the origins of the OPPO and Vivo brands during an interaction with users on the Internet.

OnePlus today announced the launch of a new line of cheaper phones called the OnePlus Nord, with the goal of making "premium OnePlus experience accessible to more users".

Under-screen cameras will eventually go into mass production, which could put an end to the notch and punch-hole camera designs.

The smartphone market saw a decline in shipments in 2019, which also affected the refurbished phone market.

In both Europe and Latin America, where smartphone shipments declined by more than 20 percent, Xiaomi's phone showed a significant counter-trend growth, according to Counterpoint.

Global smartphone shipments are expected to fall nearly 12 percent year-over-year to 1.2 billion units in 2020 as the novel coronavirus crisis takes its toll on the economy, leading to lower consumer spending, according to a report released Wednesday by market research firm IDC.

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