Thursday, August 15, 2013



According to research company Gartner, the move of consumers from feature phones to smartphones has finally seen smartphones surpass feature phones in sales for the first time in the second quarter of 2013.

Gartner claims about 435 million phones were shipped during the second quarter of the current year and smartphones accounted for 225 million units while feature phones account for the rest.
Smartphones have surpassed feature phones in sales

This represents a 51.8% stake for smartphones and 48.2% for the feature phones. The smartphones has witnessed a rise of 46.5% in sales compared to the second quarter of 2012.
Smartphones accounted for 51.8 percent of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in smartphone sales surpassing feature phone sales for the first time,” Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner said.
Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe experienced the highest smartphone growth rate of 74.1%, 55.7%, and 31.6% respectively according to the report.
Samsung Electronics Co.  is responsible for 71.3 million units of the 225 million smartphone sales which accounts for 31.7% share from 29.7% in the second quarter of 2012. Apple also sold 32 million units of smartphones which accounts for 14.2% of smartphone sales while LG sold 11.5 million units (5.1%).
The Android OS is king with a market share of 79% up from 64.2% from the second quarter of 2012. iOS comes second with a market share of 14.2% down from 18.8% in the same period of 2012.
Windows phone has moved to a 3.3% share leapfrogging blackberry which now stand at 2.7% share of the market, down from 5.2%. Other OSes like Symbian and Bada account for less than 1%.
Phone manufacturer Nokia has been more affected by the decline in the demand for feature phones as its total phone sales dropped from 83.4 million units in 2012 to 61 million in 2012. Most of Nokia phone sales are feature phones.
A rival research company International Data Corporation released its results for the second quarter. There are not many variations from the values but you can check it for comparison HERE.
Source: Gartner

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