Good selling prepaid phone, smartphone sales in the U.S. increased 9%

Although the U.S. economy is having a certain number of difficulties, but smartphone sales in this sales continued to increase steadily at a rate of 9% per year. The statistics show that in Q2/2012 the number of customers purchasing the phone postpaid decline significantly, instead of volumes sold prepaid phone nearly doubled - over 91% over the same period last year last year. Explanations for this impressive growth, Stephen Baker, vice president of NPD Group, said the prepaid phones are not cheap, but many choose to focus on the old type and fewer features. This is exactly what attracts so many people can not afford an expensive new equipment. Because according to data from NPD, in 2011, 24% of U.S. households have annual incomes less than 35 thousand dollars (income is considered low in the U.S. average), whereas this number has increased to 35% in 2012. In addition, the smartphone has good hardware configuration and the network began to be added to the list of devices allowed to buy pre-paid.   According to NPD, the verge