A report from market research firm eMarketer expects the growing market in emerging countries to boost the market.The report titled Smartphone Users Worldwide 2012 - 2017 from eMarketer, further expects that around two-fifth of all mobile phones i.e. around one fourth of the world's population used a Smartphone at least monthly this year, CBC news reported.
The mobile phone market which was 4.08 billion users globally in 2012 grew by 6.2pc in 2013 to 4.33 billion users. The mobile market is supposed to grow by 5.1pc to 4.55 billion users in 2014 and further by 4.7pc to 4.77 billion users.
The total mobile phone users are likely to reach 5.13 billion users globally by 2017.In 2012 around 58.2pc of the global population was using mobile phones, this percentage grew to 61.1pc in 2013 and is further expected to grow to 63.5pc of the global population.
By 2017 around 69.4pc of world's population is expected to use mobile phones.
The rising trend of low cost Smartphones along with dual core and multiple gigabytes of RAM are fuelling the increase in sales of Smartphones. With an increased use of Smartphones we are moving closer to a smarter world.
Among the mobile phone users, the percentage of Smartphone users is expected to increase drastically. There were around 1.13 billion Smartphone users in 2012 i.e. around 28pc of global Smartphone users. The number of Smartphone users increased by 27.1pc in 2013 to 1.43 billion users which is around 33pc of global Smartphone users.
The world Smartphone market sales grew to 250 million in Q3 ,2013. Number of Smartphone users is further expected to increase by 22pc to 1.75 billion users in 2014, which is around 39% of mobile users.