Android popularity rocketing in Southeast Asia

Android popularity rocketing in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia's mobile industry growing rapidly. In major markets such as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, 20 million phones sold in the first quarter of 2011, with a value of USD 3 billion.

The above data released by GfK Asia research firm. This amount is growing each at 10% and 8% for the number of units sold and value of goods, when compared with the previous quarter.

GfK Asia said that although most mobile phones sold are still kind of feature mobile phone, but the adoption of smartphones increased. A total of 3.4 million smart phone units sold, up 30% compared to the previous quarter.

From the operating system, Android popularity rocketing in Southeast Asia region. amounting to 77%. This is consistent with the data in the global realm where Android become the most popular OS.