435 million cellphones were sold worldwide in the 2nd quarter of 2013 and 225 million of them are smartphones, which would represent a massive increase of 46.5% year on year. The 210 million are the feature phones category that experienced a 21% drop in total sales, when compared with the same period in 2012.
Google’s Android mobile operating system does seem to dominate majority of the world’s smartphone market share, taking a 79% chunk, and Samsung is unsurprisingly the main driver behind this figure after moving a whopping 71 million devices in total throughout Q2 2012. While Apple’s iPhone sales have increased to 31.9 million units, it saw its worldwide share shrink to 14.2% from 18.8% during the previous year’s corresponding quarter. When do you think that the last feature phone will roll out from a factory somewhere in this world? I suppose as long as the most basic smartphone remains more expensive than a basic feature phone, there will always be a market for the latter.
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