According to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, IT exports continued an upward trend for a 19th consecutive month since October 2009.
Indeed, the figure exceeded $13 billion for a second month in a row.
Further to this, mobile phones saw their exports rise 32 per cent to $2.32 billion, of which $1.11 billion were smartphones. This is an increase of 459 per cent from a year ago.
In other news, Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro smartphones in London.
Both devices run Android 2.3 and are powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
The manufacturer observed the main goal with the Xperia family of phones "is to offer the most entertaining smartphones, and to do that with choice".
Posted by Andre Dixon
