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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in 2013 |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in 2013",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in 2013","summary" : "Smartphone adoption continues to grow exponentially. IDC recently reported smartphones accounted for 55.1% of worldwide mobile phone shipments last year. Smartphone manufacturers shipped a whopping 1.004 billion smartphones last year, up 38.4% from 2012’s shipments of 725.3 million, according to data","date" : "2014-02-11T13:54:16-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/02/2014-02-11-trends-on-tuesday-1-billion-smartphones-shipped-in-2013.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-1-billion-smartphones-shipped-in-2013","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/02/11/trends-on-tuesday-1-billion-smartphones-shipped-in-2013/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/12/mobile-devices-testing-app.jpeg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2013/12/mobile-devices-testing-app-250x201.jpeg\"\n    alt=\"Many smartphones and tablets on a table displaying the same app.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eSmartphone adoption continues to grow exponentially. \u003ca href=\"http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-business/1-billion-smartphones-shipped-in-2013/d/d-id/1113603?\u0026amp;_mc=sm_iwk_edit\"\u003eIDC recently reported\u003c/a\u003e smartphones accounted for 55.1% of worldwide mobile phone shipments last year.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmartphone manufacturers shipped a whopping 1.004 billion smartphones last year, up 38.4% from 2012’s shipments of 725.3 million, according to data from IDC. Worldwide, phone makers shipped more than 1.8 billion cellphones, with smart devices accounting for 55.1% of the total. During the fourth quarter, 284.4 million smartphones shipped around the world, up 24.2% from the 229 million shipped at the end of 2012. The volume and growth attribute to the smartphone’s continued popularity.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether smartphone makers shipped 1.004 billion or 990 million, it’s no mystery that smartphones are the “it” device that the public wants. These metrics of how our citizens are using mobile for traditional digital channels are important to government agencies to use the most effective mode to communicate to public. Think \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/30/mobile-first/\" title=\"Mobile First\"\u003emobile first\u003c/a\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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