As smartphone sales overtake feature phone sales for the first time in history, Ericsson is predicting that by 2019 there will be 5.6 billion active smartphones on the planet. The latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report shows that for consumers worldwide, mobile is the future. The smartphone has become so ingrained in modern life that it's difficult to imagine what life was like without them. It's also easy to forget that despite their apparent ubiquity, smartphones still represent a very new product category -- the iPhone is only seven years old and Android six -- and that globally, only 25-30 percent of mobile phone subscribers are smartphone users.



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