After more than 2 decades of existence, mobile communication markets continue to break records year after year. While waiting to discover numerous new products and applications next month in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress, we gathered 10 of the most amazing figures about mobile device markets.

1. 10 amazing mobile figures

2. #1
189.000.000
smartphones sold in China in 2012
This represents a +137% YoY growth
Source: Digitimes Research

3. #2
200.000.000
iPad cumulative units shipped
by the end of 2013
It took iPhone 18 more months to reach this number
Source: Apple + NPD DisplaySearch

4. #3
240.000.000
tablets to be sold in 2013
Tablets shipments are set to exceed notebooks’
only 3 years after the launch of the first iPad
Source: NPD DisplaySearch

5. #4
275.000.000
LTE smartphones to be sold in 2013
The market will triple its size this year
Source: Strategy Analytics

6. #5
295.000.000
smartphones to be sold by Samsung
in 2013
This would mean a +33% growth vs. 2012
Source: Strategy Analytics

7. #6
810.000.000
smartphones to be sold in 2013
This will represent a +24% growth vs. 2012
Source: Korea Investment and Securities

8. #7
1.000.000.000
cameras shipped in smartphones
and tablets in 2012
This is nearly seven times the size of the global
camera market the same year
Source: ABI Research

9. #8
1.194.000.000
smart connected devices* sold in 2012
Until 2016, this market will growth by 77%
Source: IDC (* PC + tablets + smartphones)

10. #9
>1.700.000.000
mobile phones shipped in 2012
This means 54 devices sold every second
Source: IDC

11. #10
>5.000.000.000
Wi-Fi devices has been shipped so far
This figure is set to double by 2015
Source: ABI Research

12. #11
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