IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Taxonomy

Figure: Mobile Phone Primary Segments

Mobile Phone Taxonomy Changes for 2022

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

Mobile Phone Taxonomy

Mobile Phone

Product/Product Category

Feature Phone

Smartphone

Phablet and Regular Smartphone

Brand

Vendor

Company

Technology Segmentations

Air Interface/Generation

5G Devices

Secondary Air Interface

CDMA Enabled

WCDMA Enabled

Connectivity

Aspect Ratio

Application Processor Information

Biometric Authentication

Bluetooth

Display Type

Dual SIM

Form Factor

GPS

Input Method

Megapixels Band

Multifront Camera

Multirear Camera

NFC

Operating System

OS Variant

OS Version

Price Band

Primary Memory Card

RAM (Gigabytes)

RAM Band (Gigabytes)

Screen Resolution

Screen Size

Folded Screen Size

Unfolded Screen Size

Screen Size Band

Smartphone Class

Storage (Gigabytes)

Storage Band

Waterproofing

Table: KaiOS and Smartphone-Only Attributes with a Data Start Date Later than 2007

Wireless Charging

Channel/Channel Group

Figure: IDC's Channel Taxonomy — Direct

Figure: IDC's Channel Taxonomy — Indirect

Direct — Internet

Direct — Store

Direct — Inbound/Outbound

Indirect — Dealer/VAR/SI

Table: Examples of Dealers/VARs/SIs by Region

Indirect — eTailer

Table: Examples of eTailers by Region

Indirect — Retail

Table: Examples of Retailers by Region

Indirect — Telco

Table: Examples of Telcos by Region

Indirect — Retail Internet

Table: Examples of Retail Internet by Region

Indirect — Telco Internet

Table: Examples of Telco Internet by Region

Segment/Segment Group

Commercial

Consumer

Geographic Segmentation

Table: IDC's Mobile Phone Segmentation by Geography

Table: Countries with a Later Data Start Date than 2007

Market Metrics

Shipments

Sales In, Sales Through, and Sales Out

Average Selling Price

Value (or Shipment Value)

Installed Base

Exchange Rates

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Methodology

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