The smartphone market will grow from around 10 per cent of total handset sales in 2007 to 31 per cent in 2013 driven by the “iPhone effect”, new research predicts.

ABI Research predicts that this “meteoric growth” will be a product of operator drives to grow data revenues from advanced services, and the general trend to pushing “smart” operating systems into middle-tier devices.

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