Over half of the mobile phones are now smart phones

Smart phone sales exceeded other phone sales already 2013, but for the phones that are in use, it took three years to catch the trend, and today the TOTAL Installed Smart phone Base is 2.8 Billion.

Android and iOS have also took the market fully, as following short table will show

Rank OS Platform Units Market share Was Q2 2016
1 Android 2,211 M 80 % 79 %
2 iOS 523 M 19 % 19 %
Others 36 M 1 % 1 %

Source: Excellent blog of Tomi Ahonen that is full of facts.. And quite much bragging.. but who would lift the cat’s tail, if not the cat itself. 🙂