Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:47 UTC
Consumers increasingly want more sophisticated handsets, and smartphone sales are expected to grow 52% this year compared to last year, according to Gartner. Overall, 190 million units will be sold this year, accounting for about 15% of the total handset market. In 2012, Gartner predicts, smartphone sales will reach over 700 million units, accounting for 65% of all handset sales. This will represent nearly $200 billion, Gartner said.
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RE: When the prices drop, more people can pretend...
by ashigabou on Sun 31st Aug 2008 11:37
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Member since:2005-11-11
It seems to me that outside of doing business, most people just want to look important but have no clue how to use technology.
I don't know if this falls into the business camp, but being able to use localization + google map is extremely useful when you are somewhere you don't know. I don't have a smartphone, but the ipod touch, and thanks to its localization abilities (through Wifi, quite impressive, although do not always work), I could navigate in cities I don't know anything about.
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2006-01-23
When the prices drop, more people can pretend to be important, brandishing a smart phone.
Most of the people I see still use the phone for a few calls and a lot of text messaging because the inbuilt web browser is mostly useless and the data speed is slow. It seems to me that outside of doing business, most people just want to look important but have no clue how to use technology.
Still, I'm still interested in what Google and Canonical can show us in the way of mobile phones, so that smart phones are easier to use and less expensive.