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Microsoft Announces Deals with 74 Device Makers

Parks Associates has released numbers on smartphone sales. It found that 86 percent of broadband households in the United States have a smartphone. The numbers are similar in European countries: 76 percent of households in the UK, 82 percent in Germany, 78 percent in France and 90 percent in Spain have a smartphone.

From the article "Microsoft Announces Deals with 74 Device Makers" by Carl Weinschenk.

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