Life and Technology – Saturday October 31 2026
Life and Technology with Charlie Brown

Life and Technology – Saturday October 31 2026

B1IntermediateOctober 30, 202637 min
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Now on 2GB Sydney 3AW Melbourne 4BC Brisbane and network stations across Australia it's time for life and technology with Charlie Brown thanks to Harvey Norman. And around the country we go 131-873 is the number to call life and technology Charlie Brown is here and Charlie some new statistics have

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come in about iPhone sales that you want to share with us. Yeah morning Darren morning everyone. Today on the show, well I'm going to tell you about that in a second, we just got some data of smartphone sales worldwide over the last quarter. Have you bought a smartphone between July and the end of September?

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Maybe, maybe not. 20% less is the shipment total worldwide of smartphones and so we are buying less than ever on a worldwide basis. Why? Because they're more expensive. As I said to you about 12 months ago the price of smartphones and tablets and those kinds of things we're going to go up because of the cost of

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