Strategy Analytics: Android smartphone shipments up to 81.3% in Q3 2013, iOS down to 13.4%, Windows Phone at 4.1%

Global smartphone shipments reached 251.4 million units in Q3 2013, up 45 percent from 172.8 million units in Q3 2012. Breaking those numbers down, Google’s Android secured a whopping 81.3 percent global share, Apple’s iOS fell to 13.4 percent, and Windows Phone took third with 4.1 percent. 

15% of Indian Internet Users Shop on Smartphones

Americans lag behind Indian and Chinese Internet users when it comes to mobile shopping. Nearly twice as many Chinese Internet users (18%) Indian users (15%) shop via their mobile phones as Americans (10%). 

The next billion internet users: what will they look like?

 

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Mobile subscription approaches total global population in 2013

80 per cent of the world’s mobile handsets will be smartphones by 2015