More than 50 million smart watches over counter

- Worldwide, there will be this year, nearly 275 million portable electronic devices are sold. An increase of 18.4 percent compared to 2015 when there were 232 million units over the counter, predicts Gartner.

The main product is the bluetooth headset with expected sales of over 128 million copies. Smart Watches follow in second place. Gartner expects that this year more than 50 million copies are sold, in 2015 there were over 30 million.

Sales of portable electronic devices accounts for $ 28.7 billion in revenue. A very large part of it, $ 11.5 billion will come from smart watches are. 'The smart watch category is growing by 48 percent in the period 2015-2017, largely because Apple makes wearables popular as a lifestyle trend,' says Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre.

Although the smart watch category is a fast riser, sales are still dwarfed by those of the sales of smartphones. So there will be this year more than 374 million smartphones sold in the developed countries and the major urban areas of emerging countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore.