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Thursday, May 29, 2014

The smart phone market in Indonesia continues to grow to 1.2 billion units

The smart phone market in Indonesia continues to grow to 1.2 billion units


Sales of smart mobile phones in the world will increase by 23 % this year to 1.2 billion units were triggered by the increasing demand in a number of countries including Indonesia .

Based on surveys conducted research firm IDC , the market most of the increase coming from low-cost devices with the Android operating system .

" What makes the growth of smart phones is so remarkable is where the growth is going to happen , " said Ramon Llamas , an analyst with IDC , as reported by AFP .

"Deliveries of smart phones will double between now and 2018 in key markets include India , Indonesia and Russia . Additionally , China will be the goal of selling one-third of the total mobile phones in 2018 . "

IDC said that they predict the average price of smart phones this year, down from U.S. $ 314 ( Rp 3 , 6 million ) to U.S. $ 335 and will continue to fall to U.S. $ 267 in 2018 .

The research firm said Android is expected to remain the lead with 80.4 % market share in 2014 and will lose a little of that portion when Windows Phone began to enter the market in a few years .

Apple's iOS market share dropped from 14.8 % in 2014 to 13.7 % in 2018 .
While the market share for BlackBerry is less than one per cent this year and continue to fall to 0.3 % in 2018 .

" The question of whether BlackBerry can survive continue to arise , " said IDC . BBC

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