Mobile and smartphone sales increased further in the second quarter

The global market growth rate of mobile phone and smartphone sales continued to accelerate in the second quarter – the International Data Corporation (IDC) U.S. IT and telecommunications market research company reported on Friday.

In this year's second quarter, a total of 432.1 million mobile phones were sold worldwide by the vendors, 6.0 percent more than the 407.7 million of the second quarter of 2012 and more than the 428.8 million, that were sold in the first quarter of 2013.  (MTI)