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Feature phones: A dying breed

Feature phones: A dying breed

By Fri, Aug 26, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments Feature phones: A dying breed

Feature phones now constitute 80% of global mobile phone shipments, leaving the rest to smartphones. That proportion is changing and by 2015 smartphone shipments will overtake feature phone shipments. As per iSuppli’s projections, 1.03 billion smartphones will be shipped in 2015 which will comprise of 54.4% of total mobile shipments. Three reasons are contributing to...

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