More Smart-phones Were Shipped in Q1 2013 Than Feature Phones
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (2013 Q1) as smart-phones out-shipped feature phones for the first time. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 418.6 million mobile phones in 2013 Q1 compared to 402.4 million units in the first quarter of 2012 and 483.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012.
In the worldwide smart-phone market, vendors shipped 216.2 million units in 2013 Q1, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smart-phones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in 2012 Q1, but 5.1% lower than the 227.8 million units shipped in 2012 Q4.
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker fills the demand for detailed and timely information on the total mobile phone and smart-phone markets for handset vendors, software developers, service providers, component suppliers, and investors. It provides insightful analysis through quarterly market share data by region and is fed information by a network of country-level mobile phone tracking services, and its continued up-dating view of the mobile phone market
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