{"id":751772,"date":"2013-05-16T17:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=540392"},"modified":"2013-05-16T17:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T21:45:30","slug":"prepaid-iphone-sales-exploded-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751772","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid iPhone sales exploded in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/iphone-sales-prepaid-q1-2013\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/iphone-4s-face-down.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"iPhone sales\" title=\"iPhone sales\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>A new report suggests that prepaid smartphones are becoming more popular among consumers. According to research from NPD Group, 32% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were prepaid devices, up from 21% during the same period in 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> was found to be the most popular vendor of prepaid smartphones, accounting for 32% of sales in the first quarter. Handsets from LG made up 22%, Huawei 11%, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> and HTC tied at 8%. Prepaid\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>\u00a0sales were found to have increased fourfold in Q1 though, while sales of LG smartphones doubled year-over-year. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/iphone-sales-prepaid-q1-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/BRSIa8jRYrg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report suggests that prepaid smartphones are becoming more popular among consumers. According to research from NPD Group, 32% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were prepaid devices, up from 21% during the same period in 2012. Samsung was found to be the most popular vendor of prepaid smartphones, accounting for 32% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}