1.2 billion smartphones sold in 2014, slowdown in growth seen for 2015

1.2 billion smartphones sold in 2014, slowdown in growth seen for 2015:

According to Germany's GfK, a total of 1.2 billion smartphones were sold in 2014. That is a gain of 23% for the year. But the market and consumer information firm sees sales growth dropping to 14% in 2015. That would result in a total of 1.368 billion units sold this year. Interestingly, at the beginning of 2014 feature phone sales still out numbered those for smartphones. By the end of the year, many of those feature phone users had taken the plunge with an Android smartphone.



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