Smartphones have long offered capabilities feature phones don’t, but on Wednesday it became clear that global sales are now another dimension on which they excel. Specifically, smartphone sales surpassed feature phone sales in the worldwide market for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, Gartner reported, reaching 225 million units compared with feature phones’ 210 million. For smartphones, that figure represents a 46.5 percent increase over Q2 of 2012; for feature phones, it’s a 21 percent decrease from sales the year before.
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Brains Meet Brawn as Smartphones Beat Dumbphones on Sales
Posted by: Enid Burns August 14, 2013 04:22 PMSmartphones have long offered capabilities feature phones don’t, but on Wednesday it became clear that global sales are now another dimension on which they excel. Specifically, smartphone sales surpassed feature phone sales in the worldwide market for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, Gartner reported, reaching 225 million units compared with feature phones’ 210 million. For smartphones, that figure represents a 46.5 percent increase over Q2 of 2012; for feature phones, it’s a 21 percent decrease from sales the year before.