{"id":4878,"date":"2014-10-09T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2014-09-11T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:37:11","slug":"mobile-technology-10-billion-mobile-devices-expected-by-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/mobile-technology-10-billion-mobile-devices-expected-by-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Technology: 10 Billion Mobile Devices Expected by 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mobile is booming. 61 percent of Americans or 143.3 million people<\/a> now own smartphones — and 91 percent owns and uses a cell phone.<\/p>\n

IDC estimates<\/a> that the smartphone market is growing at 4.9 percent and as high as 32.4 percent in emerging markets. \u00a0After breaking the barrier of one billion smartphone shipments in 2013, 2014 is on track for shipping 1.25 billion smartphones. \u00a0By 2016, it’s expected that there will be more than 10 billion mobile Internet devices in use. \u00a0Market and Markets estimates<\/a> that the Mobile Phone and Smartphone market will reach $341.4 billion by 2015.<\/p>\n

The University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/a> (UAB) Collat School of Business\u00a0has pulled together some of the statistics about mobile technologies to create the following Infographic:<\/p>\n

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Mobile is booming. 61 percent of Americans or 143.3 million people now own smartphones — and 91 percent owns and uses a cell phone. IDC estimates that the smartphone market is growing at 4.9 percent and as high as 32.4…<\/span><\/p>\n

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