On Tuesday, we were ready to publish our mid-2011 global IT market forecast.

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Intel management indicated during the recent earnings call that the PC industry is now shipping over 1 million PCs a day, which suggests additional upside to our global PC market forecast.

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The market researcher IDC Thursday lowered its forecast for global smart-phone sales in 2009, predicting 3.4% growth down from 8.7%.

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"We forecast that by 2016, 31% of the global overall handset market will be low-end smartphone, " Ian Fogg, principal analyst at IHS, told the BBC.

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We believe that the advent of tablets, especially the Apple iPad, could further slow down the PC market growth and forecast an average growth rate of 10% for the global notebooks and netbooks unit sales in future.

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Their forecasts suggest that BlackBerry Mobile Phone Market Share will slightly hire than the Trefis forecast over the next few years and that Global Mobile Phones Sold will also be slightly higher than the Trefis forecast.

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