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smartphone sales in the first three months of this year exceeded those of basic mobile phones, hitherto unprecedented, said Friday at IDC.
“phone users want computers in their pockets,” said senior research analyst at IDC, Kevin Restivo.
“The days when phones were used primarily for making phone calls and texting are rapidly disappearing,” he said.
The rise of smartphones has put the power in the hands of the U.S. company Apple and South Korea’s Samsung, but Chinese fimas as ZTE and Huawei are among the top five vendors, according to IDC.
“Besides smartphones displace feature phones, the other major trend in the industry is the emergence of Chinese companies among the major smartphone vendors,” said research manager mobile phones, Ramon Llamas.
“Chinese suppliers, including Huawei and ZTE and Coolpad and Lenovo, have taken significant steps to attract new users with their Android smartphones,” he said.
Google’s Android operating system for smartphones is offered for free to device makers, while Apple keeps tight control over the iOS operating system for your iPhones.
global mobile phone market grew 41.6%, and the number of phones sold rose to 418.6 million, compared to 402.4 million in the same period last year, IDC said.
market in general, including basic phones that do not work as minicomputers connected to the Internet, increased 4%, to 418.6 million, according to IDC.
Samsung is still the king of the smartphones: its sales rose 60.7%, to 70.7 million mobile phones, surpassing the total sent by Apple, LG, Huawei and ZTE, which complete the top five first in that order.
Apple iPhone sales reached a new record for the company in the first quarter, an increase of 6.6%, to 37.4 million attributed 17.3% of the global market, compared to the Samsung holds 32.7% who said the IDC.
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