Analyst firm Gartner has once again summed up the work of manufacturers of smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2013 and for the year as a whole. In short, the share of smartphones in the fourth quarter was 57.6% of all cars sold in this period for cellular devices. . Smartphones also won the first annual event. In 2013, was sold 968 million smartphones, which is 42.3% more compared with 2012. Total annual performance even share among all smartphone devices for mobile communication reached 53.6%. In other words, for the first time smart phones have come to dominate the market.
If we take into account only the fourth quarter of 2013, the quarterly smartphone sales for the year increased by 36% to 57.6% stake in, while a year ago the share of smartphones sold in the fourth quarter was less than half, and was 44%. Significant growth of interest in smartphones responsible countries of Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe, where sales growth exceeded 50%.
In developed countries, by contrast, although the demand for regular phones fell, people were in no hurry to buy new smartphones.
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