Unstoppable

Smartphone onslaught

It's official - smartphones are now selling in greater numbers than traditional mobiles.  The first 3 months of
2013 show worldwide sales of smartphones captured 51.6% of the marketplace - the first time that smartphones have outsold their more basic cousins.

In some countries the figures are more skewed.  In the US market it's around 2 smartphones for every standard phone.

The volumes are huge - 418.6 million phones (smart and otherwise) were sold in just the first three months of this year.

Smartphones have captured more than a 50% market share

Not all manufacturers faired equally.  Samsung is far and away the biggest manufacturer of smartphones with 70.7 million (or 32.7%) of the world smartphone Q1 2013 sales of 216 million.  Apple came second with 37.4 million units of their iPhone (17.3%).

No other single manufacturer managed to capture even 5% of the smartphone market.  Clearly there are a lot of players out there but they are trailing way behind the market leaders.

Smartphone sales outstrip mobiles for the first time (NBC)

Share of the mobile phone market in 2013 (BGR)

IDC 2013 survey of phone market