{"id":52284,"date":"2014-01-28T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52284"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:18:57","slug":"over-1-billion-smartphones-sold-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/52284\/over-1-billion-smartphones-sold-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1 billion smartphones sold in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion units for first time in 2013, climbing 38.4 percent from the previous year to 1.004 billion units, research firm IDC said.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones made up 55.1 percent of all mobile phone shipments last year from just over two-fifths in 2012, IDC said.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics Co&#8217;s market share edged up one percentage point year-on-year to 31.3 percent to keep its place as the world&#8217;s biggest smartphone vendor, while second-place Apple Inc&#8217;s fell from 18.7 percent to 15.3 percent, according to IDC.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei Technologies Co, LG Electronics and Lenovo Group were third, fourth and fifth largest respectively, each with a market share of just under five percent in 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the IDC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa out of favour in 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/51725\/south-africa-out-of-favour-in-2014\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa out of favour in 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tablet growth forecasts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/50498\/tablet-growth-forecasts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tablet growth forecasts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Connected cars are in demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/51532\/connected-cars-are-in-demand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Connected cars are in demand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 2013 was not a good year for the PC\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/51524\/2013-was-not-a-good-year-for-the-pc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">2013 was not a good year for the PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion units for first time in 2013, climbing 38.4 percent from the previous year to 1.004 billion units, research firm IDC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,625,117],"class_list":["post-52284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-idc","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52296,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52284\/revisions\/52296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}