It seems like every week a new stat comes out that highlights mobile's unstoppable global momentum.
Last week we learnt that the world has six billion mobile phone subscriptions, while this week a study by Strategy Analytics says that the total number of smartphone users worldwide hassurpassed one billion - 1.038 billion, to be exact.
The report says the milestone figure was reached in Q3 of 2012, which is a huge leap from the figure of 0.7 at the end of Q3 2011.
Although it 19 years to hit one billion smartphone users (the first was launched in 1993), Strategy Analytics believes the number of smartphone owners will reach two billion by 2015 - that's some serious growth, but not particularly surprising when you consider emerging markets like India, China and Africa. http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-planet/019639