Smartphone sales exceeded feature phone sales worldwide in Q2

With the growing technology and the ease of buying it, smartphones have reportedly outsold basic feature phones for the first time in April-June period.

According to the BBC, research firm Gartner found that worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 435 million units and smartphones accounted for 225 million units while feature phones totaled to 210 million units.

Gartner found the highest smartphone growth rates coming from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

However, a competing firm, IDC, said that this milestone had already been reached in the first three months of 2013.

Andrew Milroy of consulting firm Frost and Sullivan said that newer smartphone manufacturers providing affordable phones have helped them tap into a vast consumer base, especially in the emerging markets.

Milroy said that given the growth in smartphones sales, coupled with a drop in their prices, the future for feature phones looks bleak adding that feature phones will be a hard sell in five to 10 years time, the report added.