The future of smartphone growth: By the numbers

Ok, the phones are smart now, but how smart is it to pay an extra 50-something bucks a month just so you can check sports or the stock market 5 minutes before you get home?

Never understood the popularity of these things, a basic cell phone is much more user friendly & a laptop at home works great !

And I've never owned a cell phone in my life or paid for either satellite or cable television. I don't feel as if I'm missing a thing and I suspect that I'm saving over $1,500.00 a year by "foregoing" these "necessities."

degree by which normal public/social interaction will be retarded and privacy eradicated due to non-stop and ubiquitous "smartphone" use by 2016: 99%

First of all the prices have got to come down, and the itelligence of the population will have to increase or most purchases will be solely for bling purposes...like jewlery is.

One would think that a device that is marketed as a cell phone would actually work as a cell phone.......

The phones are so smart that we give them $60 a month so they will let us play angry birds.

The bright side of this apparently inevitable phenomenon is that at least something on Earth will be getting smarter!

Don't want one...Don't need one...Don't know what I'd do with it if I had one !!

PhoneTechnology should respond to market demand, however it seems that it is trying to dictate to the market. Sure there are niche markets for those who want purely entertainment features, those who just wnat business features, those who wish to mix business and pleasure......but then there is quite a large market for those who want a phone personalized for just making calls and sending text messages minus the additional charges for added "bells and whistles" features which they never and seldom ever find the need to use. In the case of the latter; that is one market that dislikes being dictated to, about what "additional" but unused services they should pay for when they need a basic Phone.

I don't like the small screens of Smartphones.

I will keep my simple and stupid POTS hard wired line phone. It don't gimme no jive.

Great news!! In the meantime half a billion children in the world are malnourished and 2 million die each year. At least we will be able to post their pictures on our smartphones.

i'll never want to use one. you spend so much service for no more than what they are. my advice? add an computer to your basic cell phone. much cheaper that way.

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Why do blacks who don't have money for health care all have money for Iphones, x-box, limited edition kicks, spinners, and tattoos?

At first, I thought the monthly costs were ridiculous. but they add so much efficiency to your life that it's worth it... Full access to everything on the internet, Voice-Activated GPS Navigation, Email, Texts, Movie & Still Camera, Photo Gallery, MP3 Player, Games, Weather, Clock/Timers, Contact List, Notes & Reminders, Calendar, Calculator, Language Translator, Maps, Shopping, Bar Code Reader, and 400,000 apps to choose from for all kinds of things you never thought of before. I highly recommend Android over Apple if you want the latest technology, features, freedom to customize your phone, and 4G LTE.

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