Peruvian smartphone shipments are set to pass the milestone of 8 million a year in 2016, a 27 percent annual rise compared to 2015, according to an IDC report cited in business daily Gestion. This year's prediction of 8.5 million smartphones sold is nearly 2 million more than last year's total of 6.6 million, said the report, with 2017 set to see sales grow between 5 percent and 7 percent to around 9 million.