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One fascinating thing about IDC’s report on handset sales in the fourth quarter of 2012 was that smartphone sales growth declined to 36%, which was three points below the projected 39% growth rate.
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I think one of the reason for slow smartphone growth is because a lot of people mainly just use their cell phones for calling, texting, and taking quick photos. Plus, there are still cheaper non-smartphones which have keyboards, and a basic web browser for browsing the web.
Many people may just need a regular inexpensive prepaid cell phone for calling the police, fire, or ambulence in emergency situations like their car caught on fire, and don't use their phone to talk/text because they use their home phone more, or they're not very talkative.
Some people may not want to upgrade to a smartphone because they are so expensive if you buy them without contracts like prepaid phones, and the battery life of smartphones are not as long as non-smartphone.
Flipphones also are very durable since the clamshell case protects the screen and button when it is flipped down.
Plus, tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7, HP Touchpad and other inexpensive tablets, are like smartphones, but without the calling and texting features, but you can still use apps like Angry Birds, Temple Run, Netflix, and other apps since they do not need calling or texting to work.
However, you can use apps like Skype, Tango, Ventrillo, IRC, and tons of other free apps to make free calls, video calls and text over Wifi which is free at most places like the public library, schools, restaurants, and the mall.
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I think one of the reason for slow smartphone growth is because a lot of people mainly just use their cell phones for calling, texting, and taking quick photos. Plus, there are still cheaper non-smartphones which have keyboards, and a basic web browser for browsing the web.
Many people may just need a regular inexpensive prepaid cell phone for calling the police, fire, or ambulence in emergency situations like their car caught on fire, and don't use their phone to talk/text because they use their home phone more, or they're not very talkative.
Some people may not want to upgrade to a smartphone because they are so expensive if you buy them without contracts like prepaid phones, and the battery life of smartphones are not as long as non-smartphone.
Flipphones also are very durable since the clamshell case protects the screen and button when it is flipped down.
Plus, tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7, HP Touchpad and other inexpensive tablets, are like smartphones, but without the calling and texting features, but you can still use apps like Angry Birds, Temple Run, Netflix, and other apps since they do not need calling or texting to work.
However, you can use apps like Skype, Tango, Ventrillo, IRC, and tons of other free apps to make free calls, video calls and text over Wifi which is free at most places like the public library, schools, restaurants, and the mall.
