About 267.3 million smart-connected devices were shipped worldwide in Q2,...
About 267.3 million smart-connected devices were shipped worldwide in Q2, a 27 percent increase from the same quarter last year and a nearly 3 percent increase from Q1 this year, International Data Corp. said Wednesday. Total revenue on those devices…
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reached $131.5 billion for Q2, an increase of about 16 percent from last year and a nearly 3 percent decline from Q1, IDC said. Q2 shipments in the U.S. stood at 47.4 million units, a nearly 8 percent drop from Q1 and a 5 percent drop year-over-year from 2011. The U.S. market drop largely occurred because the smartphone and tablet ramp-up started to slow and “a degree of saturation” began to impact the market, IDC said. Research suggests worldwide shipments of smart connected devices should total nearly 1.2 billion at the end of 2012, and could reach 1.4 billion in 2013, it said (http://xrl.us/bnriku).