Smartphone Market to Grow 40% in 2013, 1.7B Annually by 2017-IDC Says
Research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) predicts that this year, the smartphone market will grow by 40 percent over 2012 and will ship 1.7 billion handset units annually by 2017. Total sales of mobile phones - over half of which are smartphones - will reach 1.8 billion units through 2013, according to IDC.