Shortages of large-screened high-end handsets are expected to affect holiday sales of smartphones. Inventory of the Apple iPhone 7 Plus and the Google Pixel XL are both limited. And this year, there is no high-end Galaxy Note phablet getting rung up thanks to the removal of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 from the marketplace following several explosions.
With one month of the fourth quarter already complete, retail analysis firm Wave7 says that there have not been many large-screened handsets to promote outside of the iPhone 7 Plus. Wave7 does say that the Pixel XL is the only other large screened model getting noticed.
