We are surely in a smartphone boom. With more and more companies jumping into smartphone production and the great number of business phones that are being produced today, some predictions (estimates) which would have been termed wild a while back, looks so real now.
The Apple iPhone is growing faster than Apple’s own imagination, such that it is facing serious stock issues coping up with the worldwide demand for the 3G s. Last quarter Apple sold over 5.2 million iPhone units compared to some 13+ million it sold in entire 2008. And analysts expect that by 2012 Apple would sell 80 million iPhones with sales of 50 million units in 2011.This comes along with analysis that smartphone sales would surpass PC sales in 2011-2012. And considering that mobile phones have already crossed the number of PC’s in existence, mobile internet and smartphone market is surely the next big thing.
… considering that these analysts have also predicted that Android will overtake the iPhone in 2012, its sales would be somewhere over 80 million in 2012. And these two being just two companies selling smartphones with Windows Mobile, Nokia, Palm, RIM all doing their bit aggresively – we can imagine the kind of Smartphone boom we are into. Of course analyst estimates are no ‘phatar ki lakeer’ (carved in stone). But wild wild numbers and still looks real.
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