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Worldwide Smartphone Market Growing at 23.6%: 2014 - 2018 Forecasts in New Research Report

DALLAS, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- DALLAS, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Worldwide Smartphone Market Forecast, 2014-2018 research report presents worldwide mobile phone market forecast, including a review of recent years and a forecast for the period 2014-2018, with breakdowns by system technology and region. It also examines mobile phone market volume and market share by system technology for all the world's main regions separately, including North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific (including Japan). Complete report is available at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/worldwide-smartphone-market-forecast-2014-2018-market-report.html .

The report finds that while the worldwide mobile phone market's growth is anticipated to see merely a 3% year-on-year growth in 2014, smartphone market to touch 23.6% growth, backed mainly by the buoyant demand in emerging markets. Speaking of smartphone market by region, the Asia Pacific still took up the lion's share of the total smartphone market in 2013 and the share is predicted to rise further in 2014 and throughout MIC's forecast period. On the contrary, the market share of North America and Western Europe both dwindled in 2013 and is to continue the downward trend during 2014 and 2018. Taking up over 50% market share in 2013, smartphones' global share in 2014 and 2015 is forecast to reach 65% and 71%, respectively.

Companies covered in Worldwide Smartphone Market Forecast, 2014-2018 research report include Amazon, Apple, Google, Huawei, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Samsung and ZTE. Order a copy of this report at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/contacts/purchase?rname=195502 .

Smartphone market in India will grow at a CAGR of 41.26% in terms of revenue over the period 2013-2018 as per another research report, Smartphone Market in India 2014-2018 , available at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/smartphone-market-in-india-2014-2018-market-report.html . Companies like Karbonn Mobile India Pvt. Ltd., Lava International Ltd., Micromax Informatics Ltd., Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple Inc., HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc. and Sony Corp. have been discussed in this research that covers the following buying criteria from the customers' view point: Battery Life, Brand, Durability, Ease of Usage, Features, Price, Processing Speed and Screen Size.

The Chinese Smartphone Industry: January 2014 - May 2014 research report presents a recent review of the Chinese smartphone industry in the first quarter of 2014. The report includes shipment volume of major smartphone branded vendors in China, breakdowns of each vendor's shipment volume share by chipset maker, application processor model, ASP, panel size, and camera pixel. The report also examines major chipset makers' product mix for smartphones sold in China. The report finds that the Chinese smartphone industry's shipment volume slid 15.0% sequentially to around 89.1 million units in the first quarter of 2014, with a total number of 461 models launched during this period. It is noted that the majority of smartphones sold in China were mid-tier models packed with a dual- or quad-core CPU, featuring a 5? or larger screen and over 8M camera pixels, and sold at 700 RMB to 2000 RMB (US$112.4 to US$321; US$1=6.228 RMB). Looking ahead, Xiaomi and Lenovo, both led Apple by less than one percentage point in the first-quarter shipment share, will begin to feel a mounting pressure to keep their current places, as new iPhone products are expected to hit the market in the second half of this year

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