Smartphone sales in Asia Pacific will break 100 million this year

According to IDC, a market research firm, smartphone sales in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, will break 100 million in 2011. 2011 smartphone sales will reach 137 million units, according to IDC, about 84 million last year. Melissa Chau, an analyst at the company, said smartphones were the hottest product of the 2010, with shipments exceeding twice times that of 2009 years, and South Korea and other regions growing very strongly.　　The smartphone market will continue to boom in the 2011 as more and more mobile phone makers enter the lucrative market and application developers become more active. In addition to having a telephone function, consumers can do a number of activities via smartphones, such as emailing, logging on to Facebook and Twitter, downloading movies, music, e-books, etc.　　IDC predicts that by 2015 the Asia-Pacific region will have 3 smartphones for every 5 handsets sold, compared with One-fifth in 2010.　　In the face of the smartphone impact, 2010 mobile phone sales still increased by 17%, mainly because China, India and other countries have introduced a lot of low-cost mobile phones, stimulating sales. Comment: The rapid development of smart phones has become unstoppable, for consumers, how mobile phone manufacturers can grow rapidly in the market at the same time, bring better quality, stronger experience and more cost-effective products are more important.