Smartphone sales to hit 1bn a year for first time in 2013

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Accountant Deloitte predicts the smartphone will become a mass market phenomenon and an everyday object worldwide

Natalie Stewart’s insight:

The smartphone is predicted to become a mass market phenomenon this year, with annual shipments soaring to 1bn globally for the first time, although a fifth of the devices will rarely be used to go online.

However, research in several countries suggests one in five owners of these sophisticated portable computers rarely or never connect to the web. Hundreds of millions may not even bother to subscribe to a data package from their mobile network.

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