Demand for new smartphones is in free-fall and this chart shows that the bottom is not yet in sight

as informed in Apple is far from alone in feeling the pain of falling demand for new smartphones. In a note to clients, Credit Suisse published estimates showing that global smartphone production is in free-fall, and the bank's analysts warned that the "bottom not yet in sight." Credit Suisse revised down its smartphone production forecast for the final three months of 2018, predicting it will fall by 3% quarter-on-quarter to 357 million units. This graph says it all:Credit SuisseIf Credit Suisse's forecasts prove accurate, it means that first-quarter smartphone production will have fallen for five consecutive years. As James Cordwell, a tech analyst at Atlantic Equities, told Business Insider this month, the smartphone market has "become a bit boring."

Nintendo to release new Mario Kart game on smartphones

Nintendo is releasing Mario Kart, one of its most popular ever games, on smartphones. Nintendo America announced on Twitter in February last year that the smartphone version of the iconic Mario Kart would finally hit app stores in 2019. Mario Kart Tour Releasing in the fiscal year ending in March 2019.' The first Super Mario Kart launched in 1992 on the SNES systems and in 1996, Nintendo rolled out a revamped version of Mario Kart for N64. This was dubbed as Super Mario Kart 64 and was the second-best selling game of that year with 10 million copies sold - surpassed only by Super Mario 64.

Samsung's new Galaxy M smartphones will launch in India first

referring to Samsung will launch its new lower-priced Galaxy M series in India before the smartphones roll out globally. Samsung leaned into those strengths last year, opening what it describes as the world's largest mobile phone factory in Noida, just outside of New Delhi. Specs about the three Galaxy M smartphones emerged last month, with details appearing on platform benchmark Geekbench about devices called M10, M20 and M30, the latter of which may be powered by an Exynos 7885 chip with 4GB ram. Warsi told Reuters that "the M series has been built around and incepted around Indian millennial consumers." The price range of Indian-first smartphones will be from less than 10,000 rupees (about $142) to 20,000 rupees. The company will debut the latest version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10, in San Francisco on February 20.

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