Meanwhile, it's expecting the vast bulk of the smartphone market to become almost equally divided between devices with screens of between 5-inches and less than 5.5-inches, and those with screens of 5.5-inches and under 6-inches — expecting shipments to grow from 593.3M and 558.7M this year respectively, to 731.4M and 749.3M by 2021.
It is expected that the smartphone, along with the mobile platform, will play an important role not only in the distribution of products, but also in establishing and strengthening customer relationships and brand loyalty [21, 34].
There are policy implications around the expectation that all students and doctors should be expected to have a smartphone to support their education or professional practice.
By 2018, it's expected that smartphone ownership will grow to 50 million here, which means that Mexico's growth in terms of app downloads will grow as well.
General Harmonic's technology could have the biggest impact in developing markets in Africa and Asia, where billions of people are expected to get smartphones over the next half-decade but many lack access to the 4G and LTE networks available in the United States and Europe.
By 2015, when 80 percent of the residents are expected to carry smartphones or tablet PCs, wireless connectivity will be almost as free as it is ubiquitous: the municipal authorities are installing free Wi-Fi wireless hot spots in all the city's public spaces, including 360 parks, 3,200 intersections and 2,200 streets around shopping centers.
But the next generation, 4G, is just coming into the marketplace and is expected to become the mainstream smartphone technology over the next three to five years.
By the end of 2014, it is expected that the global number of smartphones in use will reach 1.75 billion or one phone for every four people in the world (eMarketer.com, 2014).
More than 2 billion people around the world are expected to have a smartphone by 2016, according to the latest figures from eMarketer.
However, it is expected that the functional benefits of smartphones and small tablets are likely to be consistent.
