Smart phone  shipments dip as iPhone "fatigue" sets in and china reaches saturation

The globle smartphone market saw its first year-on-year decline in the first quarter of this year, with both Samsung Electronics  and apple shipping fewer phones, acccordding to a research firm.

Apple's south korean rival samsung shipped 79 million smart phones worldwide in the dirst quater, down 4 percent annually from 82.7 million units in the first quater of 2015, Strategy  analytics said itts maarket share decline marginally to 23.6 percent from the 24 percent from the 24 percent held in the same periodd last year while apple's share was down to 15.3 percent from 17.7 percent a year earlier.

Samsung reported earlier on Wednesday that while smart phone and tablet demand  saw a slight quater on quater decrease due to seasonal effects overall operating profit  for its IT&Mobile communication division also saw a 6.6 percent year-on-year increase.

The company's new Galaxy S7 and S7 edge sold ''vigorously'' in the month of march, while its more afforable J-series phones did well inn emerging markets, accoording to IDC.