The sales of smartphones increase by nearly one-third this year

The world market turnover of smartphones increases by nearly one-third this year, thanks to the price decline and due to the rapid demand growth of the emerging regions, and exceeds the sales of traditional mobile phones for the first time – the U.S. International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research company told on Wednesday.

This year, the sales of smartphones increase by 32.7 percent from the 722.5 million of 2012, to 958.8 million this year all over the world and with a share of 52.2 percent exceed the ratio of sold traditional mobile phones for the first time. The smartphone sales from 2013 to 2017 will increase with an annual average of 13.3 percent. (MTI)