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Smartphone Sales to Overtake Regular Handsets by 2015 Says New Report
[December 04, 2009]

Smartphone Sales to Overtake Regular Handsets by 2015 Says New Report


(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new market report The report "Global Smartphone Market" available at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/TTI00007 covers the global market for smartphones. It provides detailed analysis of mobile operating systems, including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, LiMo, Symbian, Windows Mobile, webOS, and Garnet/Palm OS. The report provides seven-year sales forecasts for smartphones as well as handsets.



According to the 124 page report, Smartphones will overtake regular handsets in terms of sales by 2015, the report says that sales of smartphones will constitute 2/3rd of mobile handset sales by 2016.

"We are witnessing a paradigm shift in the way people use the mobile phone", said Naqi Jaffery, the reports author. "The smartphone is becoming the primary mobile device, he said. Falling smartphone prices and attractive features are contributing their transformation into a mass market device" The report predicts that Linux will emerge as the dominant mobile platform, capturing well over 60 percent of the smartphone market over the next seven years. Operating systems embracing the Linux platform include Android, Symbian, WebOS, and LiMo. This is bringing down costs and enhancing features that Linux phones offer.


The report "Global Smartphone Market" is available from Report Buyer at: http://www.reportbuyer.com/telecoms/handsets_devices/global_smartphone_market.html Report Buyer product ID: TTI00007 About Report Buyer.

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