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The prices of smartphones are beginning to nosedive in the African, European and the Middle East mobile phone markets, according to the latest figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

The numbers indicate that there were signs of price weakness in the Middle East and Africa as smartphone volumes in the region were flat at 38.395 million, while the average selling price was $212, which is lower than the $242 in the first quarter of the year.

Total smartphone shipments in the total European market including Russia and the CIS were marginally lower than in the same quarter last year, at 44.9 million.

In the core European Union market, the picture was less promising. Most countries in Western Europe saw lower smartphone value than in the same quarter of 2017, though the picture was mixed, as France and Italy showed an increase, and in Central Europe, there was a continuing trend towards more expensive models and every country showed an increase in market value, said IDC.

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Overall, the European Union average selling prices fell more than 10% year-on-year, and the recent trend towards the purchase of more expensive models was reversed.

The feature phone market, traditionally very substantial in the region, slowed, and the feature phone/smartphone split in the market was almost half and half.

“Though just one quarter of a lower ASP may be too short a period to judge the long term-trend, especially as there was some weakness of the euro against the dollar across the quarter, vendors will be concerned that the recent ramp-up in Android smartphone prices, in particular, may be over,” said Simon Baker, program director for mobile devices in IDC EMEA.

In Europe, Huawei had a very good quarter and its P20 series, both the keenly priced P20 Lite and the premium P20 Pro did well alongside the standard model. Its strong performance brought its head to head with the Samsung Galaxy S9, which as the Samsung flagship would normally be expected to be way out in front of the premium Android category. While the P20 Pro goes for a similar price to the S9, the Lite version is less than half this.

Prices are also falling due to the impact of Xiaomi, which is moving quickly into Western Europe markets after successes in Poland and especially in Russia. Xiaomi sold six times as many phones in the EU in the second quarter than in the same quarter of the year before. Its smartphone ASP is much lower than the market average.

One brighter point for manufacturers was that European consumers are moving quickly to embrace wider screens. “This is a reflection of how much video they are now watching on their devices,” said Baker.

“Nearly all Android smartphones sold in the European Union were 16:9 aspect ratio a year ago, but by this last quarter that had dropped to just over half. The categories growing fast are 18:9 and 18.5:9, with ever-wider, narrower screens up to 19.5:9 ratios appearing on some models.”

“One implication of this is that what used to be called the phablet category is finding a new lease on life,” said Marta Pinto, senior research analyst at IDC EMEA.

“The new Samsung Note 9, for instance, is 18.5:9 ratio. Phablets have not found a wide following in EMEA because the width of the device has made it difficult for many people to hold it easily in one hand. The newer big widescreen phones are narrower and for this reason, may find a bigger user base than the old style phablets,” Pinto stressed.

The trend is a breath of fresh air for smartphone vendors worried about flagging demand as smartphone technologies mature. A wider aspect screen can normally be fitted onto the body of an existing phone without a major redesign, providing a new product without major investment.

“IDC expects that there will be a rapid transition to wider form factors across most of the Android model range this year, not just with premium phones,” said Pinto.

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