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ABI: By 2013 one third of all mobiles to be smartphones Bernard Cole London, England – According to ABI Research, the market for smartphones will grow from around 10% of the total handset market in 2007 to 31% of the market in 2013. The new study projects this growth to be a product of a number of complex factors including carriers' drives to grow data revenues from advanced services and the general trend to pushing "smart" operating systems down into middle tier devices. "Smart operating systems are continually being optimized to run on processors with lower performance,” said ABI Research vice president Stuart Carlaw. “There is a strategic move to support smart OSes in single chip midrange devices in order to unlock more data revenues." He said that the market is currently dominated by Nokia (52%) and Symbian (65%). However, the coalescence of the framework wars in the Linux environment and the growing stature of Windows Mobile will enable new competitors to put pressure on this established axis. Reflecting the impact of the iPhone design on the mobile market in general, he said, that features that look set to proliferate and become central to enhancing user interface experiences include touchscreens, touchpads, and accelerometers facilitating tilt and shock sensing, as well as haptics providing tactile feedback. To learn more, go to www.abiresearch.com. For more information about topics, issues and technologies mentioned in this story go to the flashing icon in the upper left corner on any page or go to the iAppliance Web Views page and call up the associatively-linked Java/XML-based Web map of the iApplianceWeb site. |
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