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There are approximately four billion mobile phones in the world, out of which 1.08 billion are smartphones. It is estimated that mobile Internet should take over desktop Internet usage by 2014. In 2012, 31 % of cell phone users used their phone to look for health information in the US, while this number was 17 % in 2010.
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Meskó, B. (2013). Medical Smartphone and Tablet Applications. In: Social Media in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4306-2_11
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