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iPhone drives global smartphone shipments to record levels
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Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone 4S boosted global smartphone shipment levels to an all-time high of 157.8m during Q4 2011, according to the latest stats from IDC. The figure is up 54.7% year on year, some way above IDC’s 40% growth estimate for the quarter and above the 49.2% increase recorded during Q3. The stats are reflective of continuing smartphone adoption, with IDC analyst Ramon Llamas claiming that, by the end of the quarter, one in three mobile phones shipped worldwide was a smartphone. Full-year global shipments ended at 491.4m units, up 61.3% on the 304.7m shipped in 2010. However, the global market’s increase last year was below 2010’s 75.7% growth, suggesting that growth in the smartphone market may be slowing as markets become more saturated, although IDC continues to forecast double-digit growth “for the foreseeable future”.
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