Smartphones Its A Long Way To Tipperarry

In this crazy world of augmented reality, apps galore and silly handset names it may seem that smartphones are ubiquitous. Its not hard to see why if you follow any of the tech blogs, its pretty much all we talk about i.e. Android, iOS, Google, HTC, etc. However, the mighty smartphone is in fact a lightweight when compared to other heavy hitting consumer devices ...

A new data set from RBC Capital Markets paints a picture of smartphone & tablet users compared with the consumer penetration of other major devices and services and quite frankly smartphones & tablets are dwarfed.

Take the total mobile subscriber base, for example, it stands at approximately 5.1 billion, out of a total human population of 6.9 billion. There are somewhere around 2 billion internet users and some 1.2 billion PCs in the world.

Its a relatively paltry figure when compared with the big boys and underscores just how far smartphones have yet to go before they become truly ubiquitous. There is a whole world awaiting them and they have only scratched the surface.