1.4 billion people have smartphones increasing at 44% per annum (infographic)

A fantastic infographic was sent over to me today by the folks at Open Mobile Media.

Main headlines include:

• banks are the most trusted mobile payment providers (43%)
• half of all smartphone users expect to adopt the use of mobile wallets in the next three years
• 1.4 billion people now have smartphones, increasing at 44% per annum
• three-quarters of consumers would switch banks if they got real-time deals whilst shopping
• mobile commerce will be worth $278.9 billion by 2018 (compared to just $13.8 billion in 2013)*
• Starbucks processed over $1 billion in mobile payments last year
• Square's now processing $41 million A DAY
• Apple has over 500 million iTune users registered with their credit cards and processing $16.5 billion in purchases last year
• Amazon gets twice the number of mobile visitors buying than any other store

Oh,  and here's the chart (doubleclick to enlarge):

I thought the 2013 figure seemed low.  From the article: Google reiterates commitment to mobile payments

"According to Gartner, the global market for mobile payments is forecast to be about $720 billion worth of transactions by 2017. This is up from about $235 billion last year."

Lies, darned lies and statistics.