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http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/smartphone-users-number-6-1-billion-by-2020/

http://www.ericsson.com/news/1925907

• Advanced mobile technology will be globally ubiquitous by 2020 with 70 percent of people using smartphones and 90 percent covered by mobile broadband networks

• Smartphone subscriptions will more than double by 2020, reaching 6.1 billion. Almost 80% of these new subscriptions will come from Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa

• By 2020 80 percent of all mobile data traffic will come from smartphones. North America and Europe will continue to have highest data usage per smartphone

• Video traffic to grow 55 percent per year until 2020, driven by video streaming services and increasing prevalence of video in online content

Findings from the latest edition of the Ericsson 2015 Mobility Report...

http://futurism.com/by-2020-80-of-the-adult-population-will-own-a-smartphone/

The dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007 with the introduction of the smartphone. Now, it's changed everything.

Smartphones matter partly because of their ubiquity. They have become the fastest-selling gadgets in history, outstripping the growth of the simple mobile phones that preceded them. They outsell personal computers four to one.

Smartphones have also penetrated every aspect of daily life.

Some studies find that in developing countries every ten extra mobile phones per 100 people increase the rate of growth of GDP-per-person by more than one percentage point—by, say, drawing people into the banking system.

Smartphones will remake entire industries, at unheard-of speed.

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70% - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/11646593/7-in-10-of-worlds-population-using-smartphones-by-2020.html

80% - http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21645131-smartphone-defining-technology-age-truly-personal-computer

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