Smartphones will lead the way in IoT

Smartphones lead the list of top technology products owned and/or used, and both smartphones and Tablets rank among the top five devices used to connect to the Internet across all the countries, as per a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).

The Global Consumer Technology Trends study provides insights on online consumers in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Israel, Spain, China, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The research found that the capability of consumer electronics (CE) devices to connect to the Internet was very important to Online consumers across the globe, particularly among those in China, Israel, and Russia. Online consumers from Russia and China spend the most time on the Internet per day (4.0 and 3.9 hours, respectively), while consumers from the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway) and France spend the least, according to the survey.

Led by sales of mobile connected devices, global consumer technology spending hit a new peak of US $1.07 trillion in 2013 and was projected to reach $1.06 trillion in 2014, according to data produced by CEA in partnership with GfK Boutique Research.

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