Mobile phone sales have plummeted by a record amount in the first quarter of 2009 as the global financial crisis sapped demand, a research firm said.
The number of phones shipped worldwide in the first three months of the year dropped by 13% to 245 million units from the same period last year.
Strategy Analytics said all of the five biggest mobile phone-makers had drops in sales.
Bucking the trend is Apple's iPhone that had sales of 3.8 million, up from 1.7 million units the previous year - an annual gain of 123%.
"We expect Apple to launch one or more new models in the coming months as it seeks to maintain its breakneck growth rate," Strategy Analytics said.
Strategy Analytics said the previous worst quarter for mobile phone sales was in the third quarter of 2001.
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