Smart phones are hot items these days. And for the first time, they’ve outsold personal computers.
According to a report by the Financial Times, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2010. Over 100 million smartphones were distributed in the last three months of 2010, up 87-percent from the year prior. In contrast, PC shipments reached only 92 million units in the same timeframe, up 3-percent from 2009.
It should be pointed out that with the nature of smart phones, users tend to upgrade and buy a new smart phone more often than they do a personal computer.
One might also point out that the current technology in Smart phones pretty much makes them cheap personal computers. They’re just phones, too.