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.
