Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Smartphones will be victorious by 2012
Smartphone sales will overtake the number of standard mobile phones being sold by 2012, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. Its Mobile/WiFi Phones and Subscribers report says there’ll be a 14.5% increase in the number of smartphones sold worldwide in 2009, with a 21% compound annual growth rate predicted from 2008 to 2013. Overall, 1.1 billion mobile phones are forecast to be sold worldwide in 2009. [Press release]