Smartphone Sales Will Account for 53% of Global Handsets in 2015
Smartphone Sales Will Account for 53% of Global Handset Sell-Through in 2015, Pyramid Finds CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Total handsets sold to end users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research's quarterly smartphone forecast released this week. Offered as a quarterly-updated subscription or as a one-off resource, Pyramid's Smartphone Forecast provides annual sell-through of total mobile handsets and smartphones for a ten-year period, including five historical years and five forecast years. Smartphone sell-through data is also segmented by vendor and by operating system . Granular data is provided for key emerging and developed markets, with ten new countries added to its coverage in its latest