{"id":7296,"date":"2011-12-29T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2011-12-29T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:29:17","slug":"smartphone-activations-lets-not-get-over-techcited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/smartphone-activations-lets-not-get-over-techcited\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Activations: Let’s Not Get Over-techcited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hold on a minute, Samsung, Nokia, and Motorola, don’t close up your feature phone shops just yet! While I respect the enthusiasm of Reuven’s Smartphone activation<\/a> story, the truth is that the smartphone market still has a way to go before it even comes close to outnumbering standard feature phones.<\/p>\n

Yes, the activation numbers posted by Apple and Google over the weekend are impressive (6.8 million), but not quite as impressive when you consider how many cellular phones are in use worldwide. A staggering 4.6 billion<\/a> according to data from nearly two years ago, with projected data expecting even more by now. That means those numbers reported over the weekend comprise less than 0.2 percent of cell phones in total (yes, 0.2, as in less than 1 percent). In fact, smartphones account for less than 30 percent<\/a> of the global cellular market, leading TechCrunch to declare it “still a feature phone world<\/a>” according to 2011 sales figures.<\/p>\n

Granted, here in the United States where handset sales are subsidized by the carrier, the percentage of smartphones is significantly higher. But many users are more interested in their phones being used for, you know, phone calls and nothing else. I’m not\u00a0among\u00a0those people. I’ve had a data plan on my phone for over a decade now (anyone else remember when WAP was cool?), and can’t imagine living without one. But I think that a 73 percent global market share hardly spells the death of the feature phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hold on a minute, Samsung, Nokia, and Motorola, don’t close up your feature phone shops just yet! While I respect the enthusiasm of Reuven’s Smartphone activation story, the truth is that the smartphone market still has a way to go before it even comes close to outnumbering standard feature phones. Yes, the activation numbers posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1918,1917],"tags":[1965,1964,1963,439,1053,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}