As noted in the study, only in the last year the number of active smartphones increased by 47 percent - from 706 million to 1 billion 38 million devices.
Strategy Analytics experts suggest that the mark of two billion smartphones will be passed in 2015. First, as noted, it will come from the emerging markets of China, India and African countries, the prevalence of smartphones in which at the moment is relatively low.
The authors also expressed the view that over the next five years to continue to dominate the smartphone devices based on Android and Apple iOS, but to them can significantly closer Windows Phone from Microsoft, which currently does not occupy a large market share.
The starting point of smartphone sales researchers Strategy Analytics took in 1996, when the market for the first time entered the device Nokia Communicator. Meanwhile, the report notes that the turning point for the market, the key influence on its further development was the emergence of the first iPhone from Apple in 2007.
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- Smartphones in Use Surpass 1 Billion, Will Double by 2015 - Bloomberg, 17.10.2012
Yes, it could be possible that in the world counted billion smartphones. Because there are numbers of people using Smarphones in place of cell phones and tablets these days. Anyway, nice and interesting to read this article.
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