Smart phones, Tablets, and Notebooks. Oh My!

As many of you know, Smartphone, tablets, and Notebooks are becoming much more sophisticated and popular. Out of the 310 million people in the U.S., 225 million of them own a smartphones. This is an all-time high for the United States for mobile device use. This trend is only set to increase in the near future. When you read this, ask yourself how many people you know that do not have a smartphones. Most likely you will not be able to think of many people who do not have smart phones. When it comes to tablets, they are gaining popularity all over the world. In 2012 over 100 million people purchased ipads, nexus 7, and many different types of tablets. Many people already own notebooks already, but not to many people have a notebook that is rather advance. I personally own a slightly more powerful notebook, and it is very easy to tell how more and more people are switching to stronger and more divers notebooks. Smartphones are set to have the most growth out of all the other mobile devices we have been discussing. As the worldwide mobile phone market grows in 2012, smartphones are projected to see an increase of sales of about 40% while feature phones will see a decline of about 10%.According to market-research firm IDC, vendors will ship approximately 1.8 billion mobilephones this year, and are predicted to ship 2.3 billion phones by the end of2016. Compared to last year, shipments only increased from 1.7 billion phonesthanks in part to a sharp decline in feature phone sales. In 5 years, askyourself again. How many people do you know that don’t have a smartphone?