The main force driving the smartphone surge is the emergence of cheap Android handsets from the likes of Huawei, Lenovo and ZTE, something which has seen them displace traditionally strong players such as HTC and BlackBerry at the top of the smartphone ladder.
According to research company IDC, smartphone vendors shipped 216.2-million units in the first quarter of 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7-million units shipped in the same quarter in 2012, but 5.1% lower than the 227.8-million units shipped in the previous quarter.
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