Smartphones Will Outnumber Humans by 2016

Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Smartphones are becoming smarter by the day, and by 2016, there’ll be more of them on planet Earth than humans.  Tech giant Cisco Systems estimates there will be 10 billion smartphones and tablets being used on Earth by 2016. The world population by that same year, according to the United Nations, will be 7.3 billion.

Some additional numbers from Cisco:

490 million -- Number of smartphones sold in 2011.
1.4 -- Number of mobile gadgets for every person on Earth in 2016.
50 -- The factor by which data traffic from smartphones will increase by 2016.
62 -- Factor by which data traffic from tablets will increase by 2016.
71 -- Percent of mobile traffic dedicated to watching videos on portable devices by 2016, a 25-fold increase from today.
130 -- Exabytes of worldwide data traffic in 2016. That's roughly the equivalent of 33 billion DVDs, 4.3 quadrillion mp3 files, or 813 quadrillion text messages.

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