SmartPhones Research Report

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SmartPhones Research Report
Description: Smartphone shipments today are on the rise, with a 44% projected growth rate through 2008.
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) shipments are on the decline. Cell phones have huge shipping
volumes. Cell phone vendors have been using nameless proprietary operating systems, which were
designed for basic telephony and simple user interfaces. Their capabilities have been stretched to
the maximum and cannot support “Smartphone” functionalities. Cell phone vendors have sensed
this huge opportunity and are leveraging new technologies to enhance their market share. “I am
comfortable in saying that we expect the market for convergence devices like smartphones to
double to 100 million units in 2006,” Chief Executive Jorma Ollila told a Nokia conference in Spain.
Smartphones, as voice-centric mobile devices and the driving force behind power electronics
development, are an emerging and changing technology.
“The market for converged mobile devices, or smartphones, demonstrates strong growth potential
as both enterprises and consumers continue to show interest in improved devices combining data
and telephony capabilities,” says David Linsalata, analyst in IDC’s Mobile Devices program.
Authored by Mohammed Ilyas and Syed Ahson, Smartphones analyzes this…