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A smartphone manufactured by HTC and running the Google Android operating system.A new report predicts a bright future for Android as smart phone shipments exceed those of basic mobile phones in Europe for the first time. Photography: The Truth Leem / ReutersThe era of "feature phone" simple can not connect to the Internet is more in western Europe. Shipments of smart phones outnumber the "feature phones" for the first time in the region over the past three months and 52% of 42 million units sold.
New data released Thursday by research firm IDC show smart phone shipments 48% over the same period in 2010, reaching almost 22 meters, such as Samsung, Apple, HTC and BlackBerry maker RIM dominates Nokia the Finnish market and saw his former domain eliminated. Last year, smartphones made up just over one third of mobile phone sales in the region.
The move to smartphones is presented as a new report says Android smartphone users to download more applications that users of Apple's iPhone this year, sales of devices that use the Google operating system increases ahead.
The number of downloaded applications - from games to alarm clocks and weather information - will increase from 7.4bn in 2010 to 18,000,000,000 this year, says the report of telecommunications applications analyst at Ovum. The report states that in 2016 there will be 45 billion downloads a year. Phones that use the Google Android operating system will download applications 8.1bn this year, compared with 6 billion of Apple.
Ovum provides that Android will strengthen its leadership, and by 2016 there will be almost twice as many downloads as the iPhone - 21.8bn compared to 11.6bn.
By 2015, the prediction is that the phone to Microsoft's Windows operating system, being a facelift, it will catch up and overtake BlackBerry in third place in total number of downloads and revenues for 2015.
Ovum analyst Eden Zoller said "must have" applications vary depending on the population, but the most popular are those that increase productivity or are considered cool, fashionable or fun, such as the most popular games. The bestseller list of paid for applications in Apple's iTunes is dominated by games, in particular angry birds, while taking notes Noteshelf program is currently the fifth best seller.
In general, however, the IDC report shows the market for mobile telephony in Europe fell by 3% compared to 2010, economic and other factors affected growth. Jerome Francisco, European research for mobile devices at IDC, said: "The economic environment in the euro zone is deteriorating, with a direct impact on consumer demand."
Decreased Nokia - with a total mobile phone sales below 16 million to 9 million, and sales of smartphones below 5.8 to 2.3 million - was not offset by other manufacturers,which might suggest that some customers are waiting to replace their current Nokia smartphones with new versions later this year using the Windows Phone.
Traders also focused on getting rid of the greatest assets to the new devices expected in the coming weeks, including long-awaited Apple iPhone 5 and new models of HTC, said Jerome.
Camera phones for the first time in 2002 and began to gain popularity in Europe in 2003, when they were already selling digital cameras worldwide. In 2006, half of all mobile phones sold have a camera. The expectation is that smartphones will be in use at half the European population and the U.S. mid 2012 to the current rate of sales growth, which is approximately 50% per quarter compared to the previous year.
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