Global smartphone is expected to account for more than 51.7% China 704.1 million in 2018

Global smartphone ownership will continue to climb, according to emarketer's latest study. 38% of the world's mobile phones this year are smartphones, and by 2018, that number will break 50%. In addition, by 2016, the number of global smart machines will reach 2.16 billion, which will also be the year it crosses 2 billion hurdles. By contrast, the number of global smartphones last year is only 1.3 billion, and this year will only grow to 1.6 billion. EMarketer said: By the end of 2018, the smartphone will occupy the global handset market share of 51.7%, and the function machine will become a minority. That, of course, is due to the falling cost of Internet access in emerging markets and the decline in the price of smart machines every year. Unsurprisingly, China will be the main driver of the growth of smartphone share (the total number of smartphone users is close to 520 million). By the year 2018, that figure will grow to 704.1 million. By contrast, the United States currently has only 165.3 million smartphone users (number two), while India (number three) has only 76 million smartphone users in 2013 (but will grow to 279.2 million in 2018).