The number of smartphone users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 17.4 million users (+5.61 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the smartphone user base is estimated to reach 327.54 million users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of smartphone users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Smartphone users here are limited to internet users of any age using a smartphone. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of smartphone users in countries like Mexico and Canada.

This dataset contains 76,535 real user reviews collected from the Google Play Store across seven popular music streaming applications: Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, TIDAL, Deezer, Shazam, and Google Play Music.

Each review includes: * 🌐 The app name * 📝 The review content * ⭐ A star rating from 1 to 5 * 📱 The app version (if available) * 📅 The date the review was written

This dataset is cleaned (empty or invalid entries removed) but intentionally unaltered in tone, preserving user expressions (including slang, emojis, and punctuation). Total entries: 76,535 Language: Primarily English Date range: Varied (depending on app)

The global smartphone penetration in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 20.3 percentage points. After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the penetration is estimated to reach 74.98 percent and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the smartphone penetration of was continuously increasing over the past years.The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the smartphone penetration in countries like North America and the Americas.

The ORBIT (Object Recognition for Blind Image Training) -India Dataset is a collection of 105,243 images of 76 commonly used objects, collected by 12 individuals in India who are blind or have low vision. This dataset is an "Indian subset" of the original ORBIT dataset [1, 2], which was collected in the UK and Canada. In contrast to the ORBIT dataset, which was created in a Global North, Western, and English-speaking context, the ORBIT-India dataset features images taken in a low-resource, non-English-speaking, Global South context, a home to 90% of the world’s population of people with blindness. Since it is easier for blind or low-vision individuals to gather high-quality data by recording videos, this dataset, like the ORBIT dataset, contains images (each sized 224x224) derived from 587 videos. These videos were taken by our data collectors from various parts of India using the Find My Things [3] Android app. Each data collector was asked to record eight videos of at least 10 objects of their choice.

Collected between July and November 2023, this dataset represents a set of objects commonly used by people who are blind or have low vision in India, including earphones, talking watches, toothbrushes, and typical Indian household items like a belan (rolling pin), and a steel glass. These videos were taken in various settings of the data collectors' homes and workspaces using the Find My Things Android app.

The image dataset is stored in the ‘Dataset’ folder, organized by folders assigned to each data collector (P1, P2, ...P12) who collected them. Each collector's folder includes sub-folders named with the object labels as provided by our data collectors. Within each object folder, there are two subfolders: ‘clean’ for images taken on clean surfaces and ‘clutter’ for images taken in cluttered environments where the objects are typically found. The annotations are saved inside a ‘Annotations’ folder containing a JSON file per video (e.g., P1--coffee mug--clean--231220_084852_coffee mug_224.json) that contains keys corresponding to all frames/images in that video (e.g., "P1--coffee mug--clean--231220_084852_coffee mug_224--000001.jpeg": {"object_not_present_issue": false, "pii_present_issue": false}, "P1--coffee mug--clean--231220_084852_coffee mug_224--000002.jpeg": {"object_not_present_issue": false, "pii_present_issue": false}, ...). The ‘object_not_present_issue’ key is True if the object is not present in the image, and the ‘pii_present_issue’ key is True, if there is a personally identifiable information (PII) present in the image. Note, all PII present in the images has been blurred to protect the identity and privacy of our data collectors. This dataset version was created by cropping images originally sized at 1080 × 1920; therefore, an unscaled version of the dataset will follow soon.

This project was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Industrial ICASE Award with Microsoft Research UK Ltd. as the Industrial Project Partner. We would like to acknowledge and express our gratitude to our data collectors for their efforts and time invested in carefully collecting videos to build this dataset for their community. The dataset is designed for developing few-shot learning algorithms, aiming to support researchers and developers in advancing object-recognition systems. We are excited to share this dataset and would love to hear from you if and how you use this dataset. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.

REFERENCES:

Daniela Massiceti, Lida Theodorou, Luisa Zintgraf, Matthew Tobias Harris, Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, and Katja Hofmann. 2021. ORBIT: A real-world few-shot dataset for teachable object recognition collected from people who are blind or low vision. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25383/city.14294597

microsoft/ORBIT-Dataset. https://github.com/microsoft/ORBIT-Dataset

Linda Yilin Wen, Cecily Morrison, Martin Grayson, Rita Faia Marques, Daniela Massiceti, Camilla Longden, and Edward Cutrell. 2024. Find My Things: Personalized Accessibility through Teachable AI for People who are Blind or Low Vision. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 403, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3648641

In 2022, smartphone vendors sold around 1.39 billion smartphones were sold worldwide, with this number forecast to drop to 1.34 billion in 2023.

Smartphone penetration rate still on the rise

Less than half of the world’s total population owned a smart device in 2016, but the smartphone penetration rate has continued climbing, reaching 78.05 percent in 2020. By 2025, it is forecast that almost 87 percent of all mobile users in the United States will own a smartphone, an increase from the 27 percent of mobile users in 2010.

Smartphone end user sales

In the United States alone, sales of smartphones were projected to be worth around 73 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, an increase from 18 billion dollars in 2010. Global sales of smartphones are expected to increase from 2020 to 2021 in every major region, as the market starts to recover from the initial impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The number of smartphone users in the Philippines was forecast to increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 5.6 million users (+7.29 percent). This overall increase does not happen continuously, notably not in 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029. The smartphone user base is estimated to amount to 82.33 million users in 2029. Smartphone users here are limited to internet users of any age using a smartphone. The shown figures have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of smartphone users in countries like Thailand and Indonesia.

The smartphone penetration in the Philippines was forecast to continuously decrease between 2024 and 2029 by in total 6.4 percentage points. According to this forecast, in 2029, the penetration will have decreased for the fourth consecutive year to 65.75 percent. The penetration rate refers to the share of the total population.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the smartphone penetration in countries like Laos and Malaysia.

The number of mobile broadband connections in the Philippines was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 18.3 million connections (+20.46 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the number of connections is estimated to reach 107.69 million connections and therefore a new peak in 2029. Mobile broadband connections include cellular connections with a download speed of at least 256 kbit/s (without satellite or fixed-wireless connections). Cellular Internet-of-Things (IoT) or machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are excluded. The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of mobile broadband connections in countries like Vietnam and Laos.