Smartphone Sales To Hit 1bn A Year

Despite soaring sales of smartphones, research suggests one in five owners will rarely, if ever, use them to access the internet. Photograph: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters 

Smartphone Sales To Hit 1bn A Year For First Time In 2013 -- The Guardian  

Accountant Deloitte predicts the smartphone will be converted into a magnitude advertise phenomenon and an everyday object worldwide.

The smartphone is predicted to be converted into a magnitude advertise phenomenon this day, with once a year shipments soaring to 1bn globally representing the chief stage, although a fifth of the strategy will rarely be used to make for online.

During 2013 the smartphone will be converted into an everyday object worldwide, according to a study by accountants Deloitte, bringing the total of functioning phones with either a stroke screen or an alphabet the ivories to 2bn by the top of the day.
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My Comment: It's easy to see the day when almost everyone has a smart phone .... and the cost of communicating will be almost free.