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The Personal Mobile
Content Explosion
Understanding the Opportunities in Mobile Operator Cloud StorageJAN 2016
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There is little doubt that smartphones and other mobile gadgets in wide use today are among the most personal devices
the world has ever known. Users carry them wherever they go and rely on them for their most personal of tasks – from
communicating with friends and family to creating, consuming and sharing media of all types, including downloaded video,
real-timemusicstreamsandcountless‘selfies’andotherphotos.Mobiledevices,servicesandcontentaren’tjustmission-critical
– they are essentially‘life-critical’to users. Customers can’t live without them – or at least without feeling significant pain.
However,dealingwithallofthatmobilecontenthascreatedseriousheadachesformobileusers–andasignificantopportunity
for mobile operators, which are well positioned to help their customers seamlessly manage their growing stores of mobile
content. There are two points in the mobile content lifecycle when customer pain becomes particularly high: (1) when local
files grow bigger than local storage capacity, forcing users to find other storage options or delete precious files; and (2) when
users change or upgrade devices and suddenly must come to grips not only with how much content they own and how
difficult it is to move onto their new device – but also just how devastated they would be to lose a single contact, photo or
media file in the process.
Those customer-driven realities have created the opportunity for mobile operators to offer personal cloud services to help
with customer content storage and management needs. Beyond that, major changes in how the mobile industry works – in
particular, the end of phone subsidies and the advent of frequent device upgrade programs – has made managing personal
mobile content an even bigger challenge for mobile users, while at the same time presenting to operators a much-needed
‘sticky’service they can offer to keep customers from churning away to competitors.
In this Black &White paper – commissioned by SynchronossTechnologies – 451 Research examines exclusive consumer-survey
and device-forecast data to better understand the scope, impact and opportunity of the personal mobile content explosion,
including:
• How much and what types of content are mobile users creating, downloading and storing? To what extent will mobile
device and other technology improvements drive even more content storage?
• How do changes in the way users purchase and upgrade their mobile devices affect how these users create, store, manage
and transfer their personal mobile content?
• How can mobile operators best take advantage of these personal content and industry trends to capture incremental cloud
storage and content management revenue and become more valuable to their customers?
METHO DO LOGY
The survey data used in this report was collected in December 2015 by 451 Research using a Web-based survey to query
504 US-based smartphone users on their personal content usage. The sample included respondents primarily between the
age of 15 and 50 and was gender-balanced. Forecasts of smartphone purchases – including total number of smartphones
sold, operator-led sales and holiday-season device sales and upgrades – were built using 451 Research’s quarterly device
forecast data and models. Historical smartphone sell-in and sell-through data is provided by 451 Research’s archived estimates.
Forecasted data is modeled from historical regional and country-level trends, with adjustments from demand-side inputs. Key
supply-side inputs for quarterly smartphone shipments and sell-through are derived from information provided by device
OEMs, OS platform/UI suppliers, mobile operators, third parties and 451 Research estimates.
Introduction

IV
1. THE (PAINFUL) REALITIES OF MOBILE DEVICE STORAGE 1
Figure 1: Smartphone Storage Space��1
2. WHAT IS TAKING UP ALL THAT STORAGE SPACE? 2
CONTACTS��2
Figure 2: Contacts Stored on Smartphone��2
PHOTOS��3
Figure 3: Photos Stored on Smartphone��3
VIDEO��4
Figure 4: Videos Stored on Smartphone��4
MUSIC ��5
Figure 4: Music Files/Songs Stored on Smartphone ��5
APPS��6
Figure 5: Apps Stored on Smartphone��6
PERSONAL CONTENT STORAGE OF A TYPICAL MOBILE USER��7
Figure 6: Personal Content Storage of a Typical Mobile User ��7
3. BETTER MOBILE CAPABILITIES = MORE MOBILE CONTENT 8
Figure 7: Desired Capability Improvements��8
Figure 8: Increase in Future Use��9
4. UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLVING MOBILE DEVICE LANDSCAPE 10
MOBILE DEVICE PURCHASE TRENDS ��10
Figure 9: US Smartphone Sales Forecast ��10
Table of Contents

THE PERSONAL MOBILE CONTENT EXPLOSION
V
5. MAKING THE MOST OF THE PERSONAL CLOUD OPPORTUNITY 12
Figure 10: Types of Storage in Use ��12
Figure 11: Moving Content to New Smartphone��13
6. APPENDIX 14
CONSUMER SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS��14
Respondents’ Age��14
Respondents’ Age Gender��14
Respondents’ Smartphone Type/OS��15
Smartphone OS and Service Provider��15
SMARTPHONE SALES FORECASTS��16
United States (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��16
United Kingdom (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��16
France (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��17
Germany (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��17
Italy (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��18
Spain (sell-through figures, units = thousands)��18

1
In these highly mobile times, owning and using a smartphone has become an everyday reality. But it is what is on that
smartphone that really matters: contacts, photos, songs, videos, apps. These things are the currency of our mobile lives –
incredibly useful, personally valuable and unfortunately vulnerable. If you have ever misplaced an important contact, had
an everyday app suddenly turn buggy, or seen an important file disappear into the digital ether, you know firsthand just
how important – how personal – mobile content is today.
Yet today’s smartphones are imperfect vessels. They have limited local storage capabilities. Additional storage capacity can
be costly. Consider the iPhone 6. An entry-level model offers a paltry 16GB of storage (and only about 12 GB of‘true capacity’
for actual file storage) for $649. Moving up to 64GB costs another $100; doubling it again to 128 GB costs yet another $100.
And that is for a device that gets upgraded to new versions twice per year, encouraging customers to trade out frequently in
order to stay up to date with the latest capabilities.The Android device ecosystem is much the same, with high-end phones
priced in the same stratosphere and with much the same storage capacities and per-GB costs.
Given those hefty price tags, it’s not surprising that mobile users today often make real trade-offs between storage capacity
and price. In our survey, 16GB was the most common amount of storage available on a user’s smartphone, and the majority
of respondents (60%) were using phones with 32GB or less. Just 5% saw the value – and sprung for the cost – of a phone
with 128MB of storage (see Figure 1). As we look more closely at the amount of content being stored on today’s devices, the
limits and headaches caused by those storage levels becomes more apparent.
Figure 1: Smartphone Storage Space
Q: How much storage space do you have on your current smartphone? (n=504)
1. The (Painful) Realities of
Mobile Device Storage
128 GB
16 GB
32 GB
64 GB
8 GB
Don’t Know
Greater than 128 GB
31%
29%
12%
5%
1%
14%
7%

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As uniquely personal devices, the content of each smartphone is no doubt unique as well. However, some common content
and media file types certainly prevail. Mobile phones today are most typically used to communicate with others (contacts);
interact with mobile content sources (apps); create and share media (photos and videos); and consume media (songs and
videos). As we will see, mobile users accumulate those files at an aggressive pace. And as connectivity and device processing
power improve, the size of those files is growing exponentially as well. More files – and more large files – very quickly place
a significant strain on local device storage capacity.
CONTACTS
There may be no more important piece of information on a phone than one’s contact list. Despite the multitude of ways
people use their smartphones these days, they remain at their heart communications devices. And to communicate, one
needs to know information about other people – their phone number, their email addresses, their instant messaging aliases,
etc. According to our survey, 81% of respondents have 500 or fewer contacts on their smartphones, with the average being
around 300 contacts.The majority of respondents add five or fewer contacts to their phone per month. But in this case, pure
numbers or individual file size aren’t necessarily the issue. What is most important is the ability to accurately store, manage
and – as needed – transfer contacts from one application to another, and from one device to the next. When it comes to
contacts, pure storage isn’t the main issue; the ability to seamlessly and safely manage and transfer contacts is.
Figure 2: Contacts Stored on Smartphone
Q: How many contacts do you currently have in your smartphone? (n=504)
2. What Is Taking Up All That Storage Space?
1,500-1,999
1,000-1,499
500-999
100-499
Less than 100
3%
5%
8%
39%
44%

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PHOTOS
Instagram. Flickr. Twitter. Facebook. Snapchat. Photos sit at the center of some of the most-used mobile applications, and
that’s not even counting classic ‘take a selfie, text it to a friend’ behavior. Mobile users take photos to capture the world
around them and to share those images with friends and family. And as smartphones have evolved, so have smartphone
cameras. Not too long ago, an 8-megapixel camera was the smartphone norm. Today, high-end mobile devices like the
Samsung Galaxy S6 sport 16-megapixel cameras, topping out with the 41-megapixel camera on the Nokia Lumia 1020.
While smartphone users can conserve storage by changing the settings on their camera and taking pictures at a lower
resolution, most don’t. According to our survey, 92% of respondents either shoot at the highest setting, or at their camera’s
default. Buy a 16-megapixel camera, and you will likely be shooting 16-megapixel images by default. And just how big
are those images? For now we will assume most photos get stored in a compressed format like JPG (if not, raw photos are
typically 10X bigger), meaning a 16-megapixel photo will take up about 4.8MB of storage. That is a hefty chunk. And while
48% of the surveyed mobile users have less than 500 photos stored on their phones, an average user stores about 750 photos
on their phone. Using typical file sizes, those would take up about 3.6GB of storage, or nearly one-quarter of the available file
storage on an iPhone 6 16GB device.
Figure 3: Photos Stored on Smartphone
Q: How many photos do you currently store on your smartphone? (n=504)
More than 3,500
3,000-3,500
2,500-2,999
2,000-2,499
1,500-1,999
1,000-1,499
500-999
Less than 500
1%
2%
3%
5%
8%
13%
20%
48%

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VIDEO
Video is the wildcard of the mobile services world. It has become the most consumed file type for most mobile users.
Streaming video (not saved to the device) accounts for more than 50% of all mobile video traffic, according to industry
estimates.Video files have an equally large impact on local device storage.Video file sizes can vary widely depending on the
type of compression used and the level of encoding, but as a rough estimate a one-minute video encoded at 1080p would
take up about 124MB of storage. If a typical mobile user has around 10 videos stored on their device, averaging about three
minutes each, that 30 minutes of video comes in at about 3.7GB of storage required.
Figure 4: Videos Stored on Smartphone
Q: How many videos do you currently store on your smartphone? (Including videos you recorded and those you
downloaded e.g., YouTube) (n=504)
n/a
More than 100
80-100
60-79
40-59
20-39
Less than 20
2%
1%
4%
5%
12%
18%
58%

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MUSIC
As with video, streaming has become a major component of the mobile music market. But mobile users still like to have
songs stored on their phone – whether downloaded from iTunes or marked ‘offline’ in Spotify or saved as MP3 files – so
they can listen when away from their mobile network, or to avoid eating into their data caps. Also like video, the storage
requirements for music files vary greatly depending on the encoding formats and levels.That said, 4MB represents a fair per-
song average for MP3 files, which means that songs do have a major impact on mobile storage. According to our survey, a
typical user has around 150 songs on their phone, which at 4MB per song, eats up 600MB of storage.
Figure 4: Music Files/Songs Stored on Smartphone
Q: How many music files/songs are currently stored on your smartphone? (n=504)
More than 2,000
1,500-1,999
1,000-1,499
700-999
400-699
250-399
50-249
Less than 50
1%
2%
4%
6%
9%
15%
20%
42%

6
APPS
Mobile users love apps – in many ways, they are what make smartphones truly powerful. They are easy to download and
use – and also easy to download and forget. For that reason, most users have many more mobile apps on their phone than
they realize. According to our survey, the largest percentage of users have between 20 and 39 apps on their phone – with
a median value of 30 apps. The size of those apps are growing. Today the average mobile app is about 20MB in size, with
games checking in at 60MB or even more. For the purpose of building our typical mobile user profile, we’ll multiply 30 apps
times an average file size of 30MB, for a total of 900MB of storage required.
Figure 5: Apps Stored on Smartphone
Q: How many apps do you currently have on your phone? (n=504)
More than 100
80-100
60-79
40-59
20-39
Less than 20
2%
4%
8%
17%
39%
30%

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PERSONAL CONTENT STORAGE OF A TYPICAL MOBILE USER
Based on the consumer survey conducted as part of this study and other 451 Research data and estimates, we can generate
a picture of the personal content storage needs of a typical mobile user (see Figure 6). Given the wide range and asymmetry
of the data from the consumer survey, we have used median values to illustrate typical or average behavior.
Figure 6: Personal Content Storage of a Typical Mobile User
PERSONAL CONTENT STORAGE OF A TYPICAL MOBILE USER
CONTACTS 300
Growth rate 3 per month
PHOTOS 750
Average file size 4.8 MB
Storage required/Monthly increment 3.6 GB/91 MB
VIDEOS 10
Average length 3 minutes
Average file size 124 MB
Storage required/Monthly increment 3.7 GB/744 MB
SONGS 150
Storage required/Monthly increment 600 MB/16 MB
APPS 30
Storage required/Monthly increment 900 MB/60 MB
OTHER (WORD DOCS, PDFS, PODCASTS, ETC.) 2 GB
TOTAL STORAGE REQUIRED 10.8 GB
ESTIMATED TOTAL MONTHLY INCREMENT 911 MB

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If anything, the amount of mobile content that gets created and stored will only grow as mobile phones and networks
improve. We have seen this already as we examined the trends around various mobile file types, such as mobile video. The
faster the mobile network, the more likely a user is to download and store larger media files like audio or video. Likewise, the
more powerful the phone – i.e., better processor, battery life or storage – the more content an end user is able to keep and
manage on their device.
As part of our survey of mobile users’personal content habits, we specifically asked what capability improvements would
most lead users to create/store even more mobile content. The results were illuminating:
• More storage capacity has the biggest impact on mobile content creation. More on-device storage capacity (55%)
and free cloud storage capacity (51%) were seen to have the biggest impact on mobile content creation and storage.
• Better content quality would also result in more local storage of content. In particular, users said they would store
more photos, videos and music, according to our survey results, if the image, video and sound quality were better.
• Better device capabilities such as content management/transfer also have an impact on mobile content creation
and storage. Speedier processing (32%) and more efficient file transfer (33%) have significant impact on mobile content
creation and storage, according to our survey results. Longer device battery life (39%) was also among the most desired
capability improvements.
Figure 7: Desired Capability Improvements
Q: Which of the following capability improvements would encourage you to create/store more content (photos,
videos, apps, etc.) on your smartphone? [select all that apply] (n=504)
3. Better Mobile Capabilities = More Mobile
Content
Larger on-device storage capacity
Larger cloud storage capacity - Free
Larger cloud storage capacity - Paid
Better image/video quality
Better sound quality
Faster smartphone processor
Easier and quicker transferability
Better connectivity
Longer device battery life
Other
55%
51%
8%
41%
32%
32%
33%
19%
39%
3%

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These responses make the case for even more personal mobile content being created and stored in the future. Devices
will continue to improve, as will the quality of content they can create and consume. Most interesting is the impact that
improved storage capabilities have on the amount of content created. With improved devices, more appealing content and
better storage options, 74% of mobile users said they would create and store more content – in some cases, up to three times
as much content as they do today.
Just as intriguing is the finding that storage alone isn’t enough to encourage – or handle – such huge leaps in mobile content
creation and storage. Users say they also require longer device battery life, better connectivity to move that content off their
device and into the cloud, and easier and quicker transfer capabilities to help them better manage how content moves
between their devices and cloud-based storage services.
Figure 8: Increase in Future Use
Q: If your mobile device had the desired capability improvements (selected by you), how would that impact the
current volume of content that you create/store on your smartphone (on average)? (n=504)
26%
14%
26%
34%
1.5x as many photos/videos/apps
2x as many photos/videos/apps
3x as many photos/videos/apps
stay the same

10
To fully understand the challenges and opportunities presented by the mobile content explosion, it is important to
understand the changing dynamics of how users buy and upgrade their mobile devices. Users not only depend on their
smartphones and other mobile devices to create, capture, download and store mobile content – but they must also work
around the limitations of those devices when local storage proves insufficient, or when they must move content from an
old device to a new one.
MOBILE DEVICE PURCHASE TRENDS
To better understand those user dynamics, we have examined the smartphone purchase/upgrade habits of mobile users
in six countries – US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain (see Appendix). But to fully understand how such metrics are
evolving, and how they impact mobile content creation and storage, let’s take a closer look at perhaps the most rapidly
evolving smartphone market – the US.
Figure 9: US Smartphone Sales Forecast
SMARTPHONE SALES FORECAST (IN UNITS) – UNITED STATES
2015 2019
TOTAL SMARTPHONE SALES 144.7 MILLION 157.6 MILLION
Operators 95.2 million 95.5 million
Retail/Distributors 49.5 million 62.1 million
TOTAL IN-STORE SALES 85.6 MILLION 92.6 MILLION
Operator Stores 53.8 million 57 million
Retail/Distributor Stores 31.7 million 35.6 million
HOLIDAY SALES 33.3 MILLION 35 MILLION
• Total US smartphone sales will total 144.7 million in 2015, growing to 157.6 million in 2019. The fact that sales
continue to grow is significant given the level of smartphone saturation (i.e., virtually everyone who wants a smartphone
today has one). This means most sales going forward will be not new sales but upgrades, with users needing to account
for and move data and content from old phones to new ones.
• Of those sales, 95.2 million (or 66%) will be sold by operators in 2015. Those transactions give operators a chance to
help customers move their personal data to their new devices, including providing offers of additional storage to both
ease the move and satisfy future creation/storage requirements.
• Of total smartphone sales, 85.6 million devices (59%) are sold in-store. Of that number, operator retail locations
account for 53.8 million units, and retailer/distributor stores another 31.7 million devices. In-store device sales or upgrades
provide even more hands-on opportunities to help users with data/content storage and transfer issues.
• The holiday season, defined as the eight-week period from mid-November through mid-January, creates a boost
in handset sales. While that period covers just 15% of the calendar year, it accounts for 23% of annual smartphone
sales.That makes the holiday season a particularly important time for mobile operators to help their customers deal with
personal content storage and management issues.
These raw numbers tell only part of the device sales/upgrade story, however, since the way that mobile operators sell and
upgrade with their customers has changed drastically in recent years. In strongly postpaid-oriented markets, such as the US,
two-year contracts and phone subsidies have largely been replaced by device financing, leasing and accelerated upgrade
programs. Such dynamics have always been at play in prepaid markets, but moving them into postpaid markets – and
super-charging them via accelerated device-upgrade programs such as T-Mobile Jump or ATT Next – drastically alters the
4. Understanding the Evolving Mobile
Device Landscape

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device landscape. No longer are customers locked into their carrier relationship, nor are they stuck with devices for long
periods of time. For example, with T-Mobile’s new Jump on Demand program – the industry’s most aggressive – customers
can upgrade their high-priced smartphones up to three times in a single year.That keeps users up to date with the very latest
devices, and potentially keeps mobile operators busy helping those customers transfer and store personal content at each
step along the way.
The move away from service contracts and device subsidies presents significant challenges to operators as well. Unlike in
the past – where device subsidies, two-year contracts and early termination fees made it difficult for mobile users to change
carriers–customerscanchurnawayatanytime.Beyondthat,aggressive‘steal’promosbyoperators–suchaspayingoffearly
termination fees or device financing balances – make it even easier for customers to leave a carrier. In that environment, it is
paramount that operators find ‘sticky’services that help keep customers on board. Device financing programs themselves
represent one such service, requiring users to pay off their financing balances before they can depart. Another approach
is to offer specific services that make it difficult or unappealing for customers to disconnect from services offered by their
carrier – for example, an exclusive deal on a music streaming service; a mobile banking app that becomes entwined with a
user’s financial transactions; or a mobile content storage service that holds and helps manage a customer’s most precious
personal content and data assets.

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Giventhestoragelimitsonmostsmartphonestodayandtheproclivityofuserstoeatupavailableon-boardstoragecapacity
very rapidly, how best to manage that storage becomes a crucial concern for mobile users. And it’s not just a capacity issue.
Keeping one’s important mobile content only on one’s phone also greatly increases the risk of loss – lose the phone, have it
stolen or suffer a crash, and all of the content on that device could be lost for good. Mobile users already understand those
risks and limitations, and rely heavily on storage options beyond their device to manage their personal mobile content.
According to our survey, just 32% of respondents use only their device to store mobile content. The majority of users (58%)
count on other storage options as well – including 14% that rely on storage services only; 33% that manage storage across
the device and a cloud storage service; and 21% that share content between their device and home computer.
Figure 10: Types of Storage in Use
Q: Where do you store photos and videos taken with your smartphone? (n=504)
Just as important as having access to storage beyond the mobile device, users need assistance and tools to help them move
content between devices – especially as device upgrade programs increase the opportunity for more frequent phone swap-
outs. Today mobile users rely on two main capabilities to help them move content: 1) backing up data to a cloud service
and then restoring it to their new phone (47%); and 2) having an in-store sales rep assist with the content transfer process
(23%). Both use cases potentially put mobile operators at the center of the mobile storage and transfer equation, either by
providing cloud-based storage or making available hands-on, in-store help to assist customers with their mobile content
management, storage and transfer needs.
5. Making the Most of the Personal Cloud
Opportunity
32%
14%
33%
21%
On device (smartphone) only
On device and personal computer/mac
On device and storage service
Storage service only
(e.g. iCloud, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, etc.)

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Figure 11: Moving Content to New Smartphone
Q: When upgrading/purchasing new device, how do you move your content to your new phone? (n=504)
By now it should be clear that the case for mobile users requiring – and mobile operators offering – personal cloud storage
services is a strong one. To recap our survey findings and industry analysis:
• According to our survey, the average mobile user stores about 11GB of content on its phone and creates additional 911MB
per month (see Figure 6), which can easily and quickly stress the storage limits of a typical entry-level 16GB mobile device.
That forces users to stop adding or start deleting content, or to seek additional storage beyond the device.
• Technology improvements spur the creation of additional mobile content. Even more than device or content
improvements, the most important advances to our survey respondents include: larger mobile cloud storage capacity,
better image/video/sound quality, longer device battery life, more network bandwidth, quicker processing, and improved
content-transfer tools.
• Most mobile users already employ off-device storage to manage their mobile content, and rely on cloud storage and in-
store personal help to transfer content when they upgrade to new devices.
• Industry moves away from device subsidies and service contracts toward device financing/leasing and frequent upgrade
programs will mean that mobile users are eligible to change devices more often than in the past. Such changes also
mean that mobile operators need sticky services to keep users from churning away to competitors once the traditional
mechanisms like two-year contracts and early termination fees are no longer in play.
In the end, it is these underlying dynamics that continue to drive the personal mobile-content explosion. User demand is
high. Technology trends support ever greater levels of content creation and storage. Overall industry direction signals the
need for sticky services – including mobile cloud services – that help prevent churn. This combination of mobile-content
realities underlies a strong case for mobile operators offering personal cloud storage services.
2%
Ask sales representive in store
First backup contents to cloud service, then restore
Keep old phone with all its data
Other, please specify
Via phone-to-phone transfer app
23%
47%
8%
21%

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CONSUMER SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
Respondents’ Age
Respondents’ Age Gender
6. Appendix
15-17
18-21
22-25
26-31
5%
1%
15%
32-39
41-45
46-49
50+
17%
23%
14%
10%
15%
Female
Male
15-17 18-21 22-25 26-31 32-39 41-45 46-49 50+
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%

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Respondents’ Smartphone Type/OS
Smartphone OS and Service Provider
Android
Blackberry
iOS (iPhone)
Unsure/Don’t Know
Windows Phone
1%
1% 2%
44% 52%
Android
Blackberry
iOS (iPhone)
Unsure/Don’t Know
Windows Phone
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Verizon
US Cellular
T-Mobile
Sprint
Other,
please specify
ATT

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SMARTPHONE SALES FORECASTS
United States (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
United Kingdom (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Total Smartphone Sales Total In-Store Sales Holiday Sales Volume
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0

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France (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
Germany (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0

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Italy (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
Spain (sell-through figures, units = thousands)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
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