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Do you need to keep upgrading your phone?
We may have reached ‘peak smartphone’ – worldwide sales of smartphones have plateaued, and in the U.K. they’ve declined. When Dixons Carphone issued an unexpected profits warning last month the company cited our growing reluctance to upgrade our phones. So what is behind the loss of interest? Winifred Robinson talks to Andrew Orlowski, from the tech news website The Register.
First broadcast on You & Yours, 7 August 2017.
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