More Than One Billion Smartphones deployed Year

CALIFORNIA - The growth of the smartphone market no doubt. Based on data from research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), there will be more than one billion smartphones shipped this year.

Reported by Phone Arena, Sunday (01/12/2013), the number of smartphone shipments rose 40 percent from 2012. Growth was expected to continue until 2017 to reach 1.7 billion units.

One factor is the growth in the average selling price of a smartphone is low. IDC saw smartphone price fell 12.5 percent to an average of USD317 and is predicted to continue to decline. By 2017, the average selling price is expected to reach USD265.

IDC said that Android continues to dominate the global market with 81 percent of mobile phones shipped in the quarter III/2013 is based on the Google's OS. The next position is occupied iOS with 12.9 percent market share and Windows Phone 5 percent.

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