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Smartphones in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of smartphone news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about smartphones, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index covering January 2019 to July 2026, smartphones took 40.47 of every 10,000 news articles in 2019 and 25.35 in 2025, a 37.4% fall in their share of news, even though the number of smartphone articles rose from 47,783 to 68,415.
Basis: Annual smartphone articles (423,717 in all, January 2019 – July 2026) divided by all articles in the index for the same year.
February 2019, the month of that year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, was the month in which smartphones took their largest share of global news between January 2019 and July 2026, at 50.33 articles per 10,000.
Basis: Monthly smartphone articles per 10,000 news articles, every month from January 2019 to July 2026.
Of smartphone articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 84.7% were positive in tone, 1.49 times the 56.8% positive share across all news, while only 13.7% were negative (all news: 33.6%).
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.9% of sampled articles carry a label.
A machine rating of editorial priority placed 21.3% of smartphone articles at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale) between January 2023 and July 2026, half the 42.6% share for all news.
Basis: Top priority label per article; critical = priority ≥ 7.
Mobile operating systems were the most frequent theme of smartphone news between January 2023 and July 2026, carried by 19.13% of themed smartphone articles and 87.1 times as frequent as in all themed news.
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; lift against all themed news.
Charts and maps
Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 30,223 | 30.28% | 2.29 |
| United States | 19,165 | 19.2% | 0.4 |
| South Korea | 16,548 | 16.58% | 27.62 |
| China | 10,308 | 10.33% | 3.92 |
| United Kingdom | 3,614 | 3.62% | 0.62 |
| Japan | 1,513 | 1.52% | 1.43 |
| Spain | 1,212 | 1.21% | 1.24 |
| France | 1,045 | 1.05% | 0.53 |
| Finland | 1,023 | 1.02% | 10.45 |
| Singapore | 956 | 0.96% | 1.08 |
| Australia | 948 | 0.95% | 0.44 |
| Germany | 936 | 0.94% | 0.8 |
| Indonesia | 789 | 0.79% | 2.84 |
| Pakistan | 739 | 0.74% | 1.63 |
| Philippines | 720 | 0.72% | 2.29 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "smartphone" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Smartphones in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/smartphones/