IDC experts in a new report claims that among all sold in the third quarter smartphone share of devices with screens in the range of 5-7 "was 21%. A year ago, this figure did not exceed 3%. The average selling price decreased from $ 573 to $ 443.
However, the major smart phones is still considerably more expensive than mass models - the average selling price of a smartphone for the year decreased by 12.5%, reaching $ 317. It is affordable smartphone platforms allow Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone to increase their market share. In particular, the first in the third quarter took 81% of the market, and the second increased the volume of the respective smartphones almost two and a half times, while the market share of Windows Phone remained within 3.6%.
Sales of smartphones running Android for the year grew by 51.3%, in the case of Windows Phone increase is 156%, while iOS is content with 25.6%. In this case, the market share of the platform was reduced from 14.4% to 12.9%. Degradation of BlackBerry does not need comments: Smartphone sales for the year fell by 41.6%, the market share of the platform was reduced from 4.1% to 1.7%. By the way, all the other smartphone operating systems occupy no more than 0.6% of the market. Related Products :
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