1 billion people use smartphones

Agency Strategy Analytics reports that in the third quarter of 2012, the number of smartphone users set a record popularity of this type of device. At the expiration of the quarter the number of people using "smart phones" in the world to exceed the figure of 1 billion users. This is an absolute record since the release of the first device of this type in 1996. At the end of the third quarter of the previous one, in 2011, the number of owners of smartphones is about 700 million, but due to continued growth in popularity over the past year has increased by 300 million. One in seven people in the world by the end of this year will be the owner of a smartphone running operating system, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian or another. An important indicator is the fact that the popularity of these devices continues to grow, although the number has not yet compare and hardly compares to conventional phones as prerequisites to reduce prices smartphone to 'simple dialer "has not yet been observed. However, by 2015, Strategy Analytics predicts a doubling of the number of smart phones and numbers in excess of 2 billion devices. While in the next, in 2013, smartphones based on operating system Android could reach one billion mark devices, underpinned by high popularity of inexpensive devices in emerging markets. In September, Apple reported that sales for the time it has shipped 400 million iPhone, and Google has reached number 500 million Android activations and the number is growing daily by 1.3 million.