New and Digital Media #6

Smartphone explosion in 2014 will see ownership in India pass US

China and India will add more than 400m new smartphone users amid growth for FirefoxOS and Android, 
forecasts Mediacells

India college students check Facebook accounts on smartphones in Mumbai, India. The country will gain more than 200m new smartphone users in 2014, taking total use there to over 360m according to a new forecast. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Phone users in India and China will together buy more than 500m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the total that will be sold in 47 key countries, according to a new forecast.

They will also add more than 400m new users of internet-enabled phones to the global network, vaulting India ahead of the US to make it the second-largest country for smartphone use in the world. This shows how the vast majority are very technological as the new phones and upgrading is being shown through more smartphones. Even older people today, feel that smartphones are something for them and that it will be easier as it's got the whole package such as the email on there phone.