Global Smartphone Use Hits the One Billion Mark: To Double by 2015?
By David Tobia
October 22, 2012
October 22, 2012
- More than one billion smartphones are now in use worldwide, according to Strategy Analytics. The research firm also projects there will be over 2 billion smartphones by 2015.
- The numbers mean that one in seven people worldwide now uses a smartphone. This represents a 47 percent increase since last year.
- Nokia is credited with introducing the first “modern” smartphone in 1996. The industry exploded following the rapid adoption of Apple’s iPhone.
- “The growth of the smartphone market, estimated by Bloomberg Industries to be worth $219 billion last year, has helped Apple and Samsung Electronics Co. rack up record earnings as they take sales from rivals including Espoo, Finland-based Nokia,” reports Bloomberg.
- Apple set a new record last month when the company sold more than 5 million iPhone 5s during the product’s debut weekend. “Samsung, the Suwon, South Korea-based maker of Galaxy smartphones, ended Nokia’s 14-year reign as the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones this year,” notes the post.
- While the U.S. smartphone industry has already boomed, Strategy Analytics executive director Neil Mawson explained that “Most of the world does not yet own a smartphone and there remains huge scope for future growth, particularly in emerging markets such as China, India and Africa.”
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