I told you today that iPhone and iPad were the most activated mobile terminals during the Christmas week, amounting to more than half of the global activations. From the company that provided that data we now know what were the most popular types of mobile terminals bought by users all over the world.
In the image above you have a graph in which are compared the trends of the last 3 years to get an idea of how preferences have evolved. In this idea, mobile phones with medium screens (up to 5.3 - 5.5 inches) have attracted the greatest attention of users this year.
Their popularity decreased compared to last year, but the number of phablets bought globally increased 3 times in a single year. Separated from phablets, tablets with large and small screens recorded weaker sales, the former having the biggest loss, they now record equal sales globally.
Phones with small screens represented only 2% of the total sales of mobile terminals, a sign that the world has started to switch almost completely to smartphones. Moreover, it was to be expected that phones with increasingly large screens would be in the top of sales, and this is because they are cheap and intensively promoted by mobile phone operators.
These data were taken by analyzing 600.000 applications from all over the world.
