iphone's demand remains intact during fall in sales

The popularity of Apple's iPhone is continuing to buck the fall in global mobile phone sales, a study has found. Shipments of the iPhone totalled 5.2 million units between April and June, a six-fold increase on a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. This compares with an industry-wide decline of 8% to 273 million units. While sector-wide sales were down for the third consecutive quarter, the rate of decline slowed from the -14% recorded in the first quarter of 2009.