#10 Russia

Smartphone users – 9 percent of total mobile phone users

Total number of Smartphone Users – 9 million

In a country whose best known contribution to global technology may well be the Kalashnikov rifle, a new mobile-phone company once tied to Russia's state-run defense corporation, Yota Devices, hopes it will have as deep an impact on the world's next generation of Smartphones. Russia is also one of the few countries in the world where Facebook is not the leading social network. VK.com, a Russian clone of Facebook has the chunk of the online social activity in the country. Now, we know what the Russians do with all the Smartphones in the country.

According to IDC.com, 48% of the Smartphone market in Russia belongs to Nokia, 24% to Samsung, 11% HTC, a mere 8% of the entire Russian Smartphone users use Apple devices and the rest 8% use other devices. In a report by MTS, Symbian, Android and Bada Smartphones accounted for over 80% of Smartphone sales in the country.

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