First Time In History, Sales Beat PC SmartPhone

The year 2010 recorded a series of explosive growth for the smartphone market.

For the first time in history, sales of smart phones smartphone or exceed the global computer sales. In fact, its growth continued to increase until the first quarter of this year.

The institute estimates that smartphone sales of 100.9 million units through the last quarter of last year, From these results known to occur jump 87 percent from a year earlier. Meanwhile, PC shipments declined from the expected, the decrease occurred up to 3 percent of the total PC shipments of 92.1 million.

In the fourth quarter of 2010, sales of smartphones grew 87.2 percent compared to last quarter of the previous year," IDC said in its report.

Indeed, during that period in power smartphone. However, throughout 2010, sales of traditional computers still leads in the sales of 346.2 million units compared with smartphones around 302.6 million, growing 74.4 percent compared to the year 2009.

Interesting note, Android has successfully made an impressive leap. Some vendors adopted it as a mobile operating system. Although relatively young, he has become the core of the strategy smartphones and tablets for some companies.

Sales of PCs, however, has been affected by competition from tablet computers, which Apple iPad. Meanwhile, the increasing sales of smartphones inseparable from falling prices.

According to IDC, too, the increasing number of smartphone sales also get a boost from the growing interest in Google's Android software, made by HTC, Samsung, Motorola and others.

"Two trends are not always related," said IDC analyst Ramon Llamas.

Smartphones and PC serve different purposes, and consumers generally need both. PC is still important to write a paper, editing photos and creating other types of content," he added.

People also tend to replace their phones far more often than they do PCs pad. Consumers may wait three to five years to replace the computer. Meanwhile, mobile phone customers often have the option to upgrade to new phones with the good.

Two new competitors have entered the 'battle': ^ 3 Symbian and Windows Phone 7. ^ 3-based phones Symbian successfully sold 5 million units by the end of last year, while Windows 7 Phone around 1.5 million units.