According to a new mobile phone forecast from research firm IDC, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 10.4% in 2015 to 1.44 billion units. This is lower than IDC's previous smartphone forecast of 11.3% year-over-year growth in 2015.
According to research firm IDC, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 6.1% year-over-year to $13.5 billion in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth.
Analyst firm Gartner said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an increase of 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014.
Analyst firm IDC is predicting worldwide mobile payments will account for $1 trillion in value in 2017, up 124% from the less than $500 billion expected in 2015.
A new report has revealed that global figures for mobile advertising revenue surged 64.8 percent to $31.9 billion in 2014 from $19.3 billion in 2013 and were driven by continued shifts in consumer usage patterns and industry innovations.
Global consumers have lately become less interested in acquiring conventional notebooks with 15-inch displays, and they are instead shifting their spending to smaller product segments.
While touch-screen technology works well in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices with flat panel displays, it is less suitable for use in some new and emerging applications; therefore, gesture sensing control will fill an industry need gap.
