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You'd be surprised. Worldwide mobile phone ownership is up to 5 billion[0]. Meanwhile, much of the first world has already transitioned to smartphones. If you
by mikedouglas 16y ago
You'd be surprised. Worldwide mobile phone ownership is up to 5 billion[0]. Meanwhile, much of the first world has already transitioned to smartphones.
If you wanted to jump on the cheap phone trend, you're ten years late. Whatever margins existed once are now gone. Nokia, the king of cheap phones, just fired their CEO and replaced him with a software guy from Microsoft. Apple, HP and Blackberry know exactly what market their fighting over.
[0]: http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4704 http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4704
- blub 16y agoThat doesn't mean that smartphones can't get better & cheaper, displacing some of the feature phones. Smartphones are ~26% of the entire market, I'll give you the source for that tomorrow.
- blub 16y agoThe source is Mobile Business Briefing.
- athom 16y agoIs that five billion individual owners? That's pretty impressive! Current estimates put the whole world population at just under 7 billion. http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html has it at about 6.8B, and a Google search on "current world population" turns up similar figures.
- iuyhgtfvgbhjn 16y agoLast stats I saw showed that for W Europe the average user had owned >5 handsets.