Nielsen reports smartphone sales accounting for 25 percent of the U.S. mobile phone market in Q2 2010, and the firm expects smartphones to become the majority by the end of 2011.
According to figures for 2009 released by Gartner, smartphones accounted for 172.4 million (14 percent) of the 1.211 billion mobile phones sold that year. In the first quarter of 2010, smartphones represented 54.3 million (17 percent) of the 314.7 million mobile phones sold, a sales increase of 49 percent over the first quarter of 2009.
Morgan Stanley Research estimates sales of smartphones will exceed those of PCs in 2012.
http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/wireless-mobile/smartphone-statistics.htm
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Smartphone Statistics
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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