It is really interesting to
see that smartphone shipments have surpassed the feature phone. According to a
report issued by research firm, IDC, 216.2 million smartphones were shipped which
is more than half of cell phone shipments in the first quarter. The number of
cell phones shipped in the first quarter was 418.6 million.
Among manufacturers,
Samsung became the top
maker of smartphones shipping 70.7 million which took 32.7 percent share of
the market in the first quarter. Their close contestant was Apple who secured a
17.3 percent share of the market by selling 37.4 million iPhones. LG was in a
third place with 10.3 million smartphones and 4.8 percent of the market.
It is nice to see that
demand for smartphone is increasing day by day. Many companies are now showing
their interest in this market. They are giving importance of making low-cost
smartphone so that most of the people can buy it.
However, in some part of
the world feature phone is still prominent. According to a study by Nielsen,
the sale of feature phone is still more than smartphone in India, Brazil and Russia.
A rumor has been
circulating in the web that Apple is aiming to make low-cost iPhone to increase
their share in the foreign markets, namely China.
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