Gartner Says Annual Smartphone Sales Surpassed Sales of Feature Phones for the First Time in 2013
Smartphones Accounted for 57.6 Percent of Total Sales in Fourth Quarter of 2013. Sales of Android Phones to Approach One Billion in 2014. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 968 million units in 2013, an increase of 42.3 percent from 2012 (see Table 1), according to Gartner, Inc. Sales of smartphones accounted for 53.6 percent of overall mobile phone sales in 2013, and exceeded annual sales of feature phones for the first time. Table 1 Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2013 (Thousands of…
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