World’s second largest populous nation India will
surpass the US as the second largest market for smartphones globally by 2016,
helped by device makers offering affordable handsets, research firm eMarketer
said.
According to eMarketer, increasing penetration of
affordable smart mobile devices in emerging markets will help smartphone users
worldwide surpass the 2 billion-mark in 2016.
"India will exceed 200 million smartphone
users, topping the US as the world's second largest smartphone market by
2016," eMarketer said in its latest report.
According to the report, China will continue to lead
the rankings in 2016 with 624.7 million smartphone followed by India (204.1
million), the US (198.5 million), Russia (65.1 million) and Japan (61.2
million).
In 2014, China will have an estimated 519.7 million
smartphone users followed by the US at 165.3 million, India (123.3 million),
Japan (50.8 million) and Russia (49 million), it added.
For the first time, more than a quarter of the
global population will use smartphones in 2015 and by 2018 over one-third of
consumers worldwide (or more than 2.56 billion people) will do so, it said.
Smartphone users globally will surpass 2 billion in
2016 after nearly getting there in 2015. In 2015, there will be over 1.91
billion smartphone users across the globe, a figure that will increase another
12.6 per cent to near 2.16 billion in 2016, the research firm said.
The number of active smartphone users around the
world hit the 1 billion-mark last year (1.31 billion) with China leading the
tally at 436.1 million, the US (143.9 million), India (76 million), Japan (40.5
million) and Russia (35.8 million), it added.
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