|  |  |  | | | | | Smartphone Table | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The global smartphones market is growing at a brisk pace, already accounting for 14% of the global mobile phone market. This high growth has been backed by rapid technology developments such as high-speed internet browsing, sophisticated personal and professional data management, and the evolution of 3G and 4G network technologies. The Asian region, especially, India and China have emerged as smartphones hotspot with the continuous development of cellular markets and the increasing 3G penetrations and expenditure on consumer electronics across the region. In relatively saturated markets, such as the North America and Europe, operator's subsidies and carrier wars has been fuelling the growth of the smartphones market in the region. The global smartphones market is estimated to reach $150.3 billion in 2014 from about $55.4 billion in 2009.
While the economic recession adversely affected the global markets; the global smartphones market was one of the very few markets that did not have impact of the global meltdown. The smartphones market with an annual growth rate of 12.8% from 2008 to 2009 is expected to grow by 26% over 2009 to become a $69.8 billion market in 2010.
The global smartphones device market is segmented into the submarkets for business smartphones and consumer smartphones. The latter is the larger and faster-growing market, accounting for approximately 3/4th of the global smartphones revenues. However, the business smartphones segment is expected have a faster growth in the future owing to the continuing mobilization of enterprise. In both the segments, touchscreen has emerged as the preferred interface, representing 39.6% of global shipments, followed by the keypad input type with a 31.2% share.
Each sub-segment of the global smartphones market is calculated for the four geographical regions of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and ROW. Europe is leading the market in 2009 with a 37.2% share; Asia-Pacific is expected to closely follow the European market in near future with large mobile subscriber base in Chinese and Indian markets and high smartphones adoption rates. The Asia-Pacific smartphones market stood at $17.1 billion in 2009 which is expected to become a $45.2 billion market in 2014 growing at a CAGR of 18.6% during 2009 – 2014.
Market participants' strategies vary by geography due to differing method of payments, subsidies, and levels of competition among vendors and operators. Players in prepaid subscriber market (without handset subsidies) are focusing on promoting value-added services and subsidized data plans. In competitive postpaid subscribers markets (with handset subsidies), players are offering attractive unlimited data plans and a large variety of smartphones models with exclusive distribution strategies.
Scope of the report
This report analyzes the global smartphones markets based on:
• Operating System:
Symbian, Blackberry, Windows, iPhone OS, Android, Linux, Web OS, Others
• Devices:
o Consumer phones (high-end, mid-range, and entry-level)
o Business phones (large enterprise and small and medium business)
o Input Method (touchscreen, keyboard, and keypad).
The report extensively analyzes each macro and micro smartphones market based on operating system; and also offers market analyses of application segments such as consumer and business smartphones. In addition to market sizes and forecasts, the report also provides a detailed analysis of the market trends and factors influencing market growth, offering in-depth geographic analyses of the smartphones markets in the North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World (ROW). The report draws the competitive landscape of the global smartphones market, providing an in-depth comparative analysis of the technological and marketing strategies the key players are adopting in order to gain an edge over the their competitors.
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Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to MMRI, a total of 2.23 million smartphones (Android/Windows Mobile/Blackberry/iOS/Palm) were sold in Japan between April and September this year, and 1.34 million (or 60.1%) of those were iPhones.
The report notes that smartphone sales more than doubled over the year-ago period, despite the fact that overall mobile phone sales in Japan grew by only 12%. With smartphones now approaching 12% of Japan's overall smartphone sales, Apple's dominant position in that rapidly-growing smartphone market has enabled it to grab 7% of the total mobile phone market there.MobileCrunch reports on a new report from Japanese research firm MMRI claiming that Apple held a 60% share of the Japanese smartphone market for the period of April through September, easily outdistancing second-place Sony Ericsson's 20.6% share.MobileCrunch reports on a new report from Japanese research firm MMRI claiming that Apple held a 60% share of the Japanese smartphone market for the period of April through September, easily outdistancing second-place Sony Ericsson's 20.6% share.
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According to MMRI, a total of 2.23 million smartphones (Android/Windows Mobile/Blackberry/iOS/Palm) were sold in Japan between April and September this year, and 1.34 million (or 60.1%) of those were iPhones.
The report notes that smartphone sales more than doubled over the year-ago period, despite the fact that overall mobile phone sales in Japan grew by only 12%. With smartphones now approaching 12% of Japan's overall smartphone sales, Apple's dominant position in that rapidly-growing smartphone market has enabled it to grab 7% of the total mobile phone market there.
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According to MMRI, a total of 2.23 million smartphones (Android/Windows Mobile/Blackberry/iOS/Palm) were sold in Japan between April and September this year, and 1.34 million (or 60.1%) of those were iPhones.
The report notes that smartphone sales more than doubled over the year-ago period, despite the fact that overall mobile phone sales in Japan grew by only 12%. With smartphones now approaching 12% of Japan's overall smartphone sales, Apple's dominant position in that rapidly-growing smartphone market has enabled it to grab 7% of the total mobile phone market there.
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Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Intel is now redirecting resources to recruit other wireless carriers and phone makers to adopt its upcoming low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Medfield, Otellini said on a conference call Tuesday.
Intel was hoping to see smartphones with its chips starting in the second half this year. Otellini said he would be disappointed if Intel-based phones were not available in 12 months. He did not comment on the smartphone Toshiba pa3536u-1brs battery companies Intel was pursuing, but analysts on Wednesday said that the chip maker could be pursuing smaller regional phone makers, and perhaps larger phone makers such as LG.
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Intel has had no success so far in the smartphone space. The company currently offers a low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Moorestown, which has found no adopters. Intel and Nokia last year partnered on the development of the Meego OS for mobile devices, but Nokia in February abandoned the OS to establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft's Windows Phone OS. Windows Phone OS does not work on Intel's chips, and Otellini said the crumbling of the partnership has forced Intel to pursue other companies to adopt Medfield.
Intel committed a lot of resources to Nokia around the Meego OS, but now has to restart efforts to get new customers to adopt Medfield, analysts said. That could delay the launch of Intel Inside smartphones, but devices will eventually come. However, the success of such devices in a market dominated by ARM processors remains a question mark, analysts said.
Intel could chase smaller vendors in developing dell d630 battery markets where smartphone shipments are exploding, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. Smartphone shipments are growing in countries like China, where companies such as ZTE and Lenovo are establishing a larger mobile presence.
"It's one thing to partner with Nokia, it's another thing to partner with [smaller vendors]," Gold said. Major vendors such as Nokia bring volume shipments worldwide, while the smaller vendors may provide a slower entry for Intel into the smartphone market.
LG is a major vendor that has shown interest in the Meego OS and could adopt Intel's Medfield chip, Gold said. Intel has virtually no presence in the smartphone market, and can only go up, Gold said.
When the Medfield processor is delivered, Intel will compete with ARM, whose low-power processors go into most of the world's smartphones today. ARM processors are considered more power efficient than Intel's Atom, which have been derived from PC chips.
There is no doubt that an Intel-based smartphone will be available, but the question is whether it will be successful, said Dean McCarron , principal analyst at Mercury Research. With Medfield as an early-generation chip, it may not be easy for Intel to make an impact in the smartphone market, McCarron said.
"It's not an easy market to get into and it's not a market Intel has been in," McCarron said.
ARM rules the smartphone market and Intel has to evolve its smartphone processor faster to make an impact, McCarron said. Most of the software is written for the ARM architecture, which has been written from the ground up for smartphones. Intel is scaling down the geometry of its potent PC chips to fit into smartphones, but its only a matter of time before Atom matches ARM on power consumption, McCarron said.
Medfield will be made using the 32-nanometer manufacturing process, and the company in the future will make smartphone chips using the 22-nm process. Reducing the geometry will make chips faster and more power efficient, analysts said.
But beyond a continued cycle of scaling down the size of chips, Intel's Otellini argued that Intel's advantage over ARM will be a robust computer architecture that can scale and a wider array of communication capabilities. Intel earlier this year acquired Infineon's wireless division, and has said it will implement Dell vostro 1520 battery technology acquired through the acquisition, such as 3G and 4G radios, inside future Atom chips.
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"In terms of X86 versus ARM, it's not just about the core as much as we would like it to be, and I guess as much as ARM guys would like it to be. It's about the core, the overall capability of the system on chip, the things you put around it -- the graphics, the [communication] subsystems, the media processing subsystems and the overall power envelope relative to the performance that you can deliver of the SOC," Otellini said.
Otellini said Intel will also have a strong position in the smartphone market because of support for multiple operating systems such as Meego, Google's Android, and Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS. The operating systems going ahead will have much better cross-platform support, and it will be easier to move from ARM to Intel or ARM to ARM, especially with Windows.
"I'd also point out that all of the major operating systems in smartphones are written at a high level such that they are cross platform and portable," Otellini | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. What Is a Smartphone?
A smartphone is a combination of traditional PDA and mobile phone. A mobile phone is a communication device which is connected to a wireless communication network through radio waves. Most mobile phones provide voice communications, SMS and MMS services. A PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) on the other hand, is a handheld device that provides services like computing and internet features. Traditionally PDAs were not offering phone or fax services.In the beginning, mobile phones were used mainly for making calls and PDAs used as personal, portable organizers.
Smartphones allow users to store information, e-mail, and install programs and making calls all in one device. A smartphone's features are usually more oriented towards mobile phone options than the PDA-like features. There is no industry standard defining a smartphone.
2. History of smartphone
The first smartphone called Simon was designed by IBM in 1992 and it contained a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, e mail and games, which was considered innovative during that period. The Nokia communicator, BlackBerry and iPhone are some of the popular smartphones introduced during the last two decades. Android, a cross platform and popular Open Source for smartphones, backed by Google was released in 2008.
3. Features of a smartphone
Operating system: A smartphone will be based on an operating system that allows it to run various applications. A smartphone operating system enables the owners to use multiple applications at the same time. A user can check the phonebook in his smartphone while taking a call. Similarly he can make a call while watching a video without interrupting the media player application. Moreover, smartphones can be synchronized with other devices like a personal computer or laptop. Some of the popular operating systems are Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, Symbian S60, Meego, Blackberry OS 6.0 and Bada.
Software: While almost all mobile phones require some software, a smartphone's software will have the ability to do more than making a call. It may allow the user to create and edit Microsoft Office documents, download games and books.
Internet Access: A Smartphone can access the internet at high speeds if supported by 3G and Wi-Fi networks. GPRS and EDGE are some of the system support which enables the user to stay connected to the internet all the time
QWERTY Keyboard: A smartphone will have a QWERTY keyboard, where the keys are laid out in the same order like a computer keyboard and not in alphabetical order as in the case of a mobile phone.
Messaging: A smartphone can handle multiple e mail accounts and will also access to the popular instant messaging services like Yahoo! Messenger.
A smartphone of tomorrow will have
A micro projector which will project phone content on a screen
A large touch screen and a split screen for media player
Activity sensor to detect pulse rate and other health indicators
Long battery life
Front and rear cameras
Dual technology to support multiple standards
Application in local language
Expandable storage
4. How to select a smartphone
Choosing a Smartphone is getting more and more complex, as there are a number of models available from Apple, Nokia, RIM, HTC, Palm, and dozens of other companies. The selection of a smart phone depends on the type of user and his needs. The user is generally categorized as the business user, communicator, and media addict. The business users usually look for the ability to compose e-mails and text messages quickly, good battery life, and a durable design that can withstand abuse. A communicator on the other hand would like to make and receive calls and stay in touch with people for which he may need a Bluetooth and most importantly battery support which last long enough that he can keep talking all day. The media addict requires a smartphone which looks stunning, big screen, play fast and smooth and have adequate storage for movies and music files.
Smartphones are like mini computers and susceptible to viruses. The user has to make sure that he downloads files and documents only from trusted sources. Another frequent complaint in a smart phone is battery draining. This is because of the use of features like bluetooth continuously or due to over charging. Similarly browsing multimedia sites and social networking applications in internet consume more battery.
Smartphones should not be exposed to heat as these phones are are embedded with tiny complicated electronic materials which are heat sensitive.
5. Conclusion
The mobile handset technology is constantly changing and as a result what constitutes a smartphone today may change next year. A mobile phone is no longer just a communication device; it is also a camera, clock, personal computer and a diary, According to a study, there are nearly 20% of the subscribers own smartphones in US in 2010 and it is one of the fastest growing segments of the mobile phone market.
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Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Smartphone spy software is a technology that we are increasingly hearing these days. While it is true that it is a software that initially was thought to be too far fetched, it has now become a reality. It is possible to install the spy software inside a smartphone and track its usage. If you want to keep a close watch on someone's smartphone, then all that you need to do is to install the software in his or her smartphone and track all conversations in complete stealth mode. In fact, with advancing technology, these days you can even get to hear their live conversations.
One of the major advantages with smartphone spy software is that it can be used to track even people close to you like your spouse or children, without they ever getting to suspect they are being monitored. This is because once installed, the software doesn't give out any beeps or alerts and therefore, remains completely hidden. The only person who will be receiving alerts is you. SMS alerts will help you know that there is a call being made or received on the smartphone that you are tracking.
Smartphone spy software not only helps you to eavesdrop on live conversations, you can also get to read the text messages, either received or sent from the particular smartphone that you are spying on. Another major advantage of using such software is that all records are consolidated and can be recorded on a centralized online system. You can then retrieve the records at any time of your convenience and analyze them.
Smartphone spy software is finding an increasing number of customers these days. This software has come as good news especially to parents and employers. Parents can keep track of whom their children are in touch with using this spy software. Similarly, employers can keep track of calls made by employees that might be providing / selling proprietary data to competitors.
Check this video, here: www.smartphones123.com/?p=266 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Android has a very different philosophy when compared to Apple and its iPhone.
Anyone can use Android OS in their smartphones for free, anyone can modify Android, and anyone can develop applications for it without requesting permission to place their apps in the Android Market.
Furthermore, Google also seeded the Android app market by holding developer contests with cash prizes, so by the time the first Android smartphone arrived in stores, there was already a selection of many applications available for download.
Mobile phones used to be devices that simply made calls. Nowadays, they are small computers able to send and receive e-mail, browsing the Internet, and running software.
And unlike the desktop computer market, Windows doesn't have the dominant market share in the mobile smartphone market. Worldwide, Nokia dominates this market with the now open source Symbian platform. However, in the U.S., Symbian hasn't really caught on with mainstream consumers.
HTC manufactures a great variety of Android smartphones. It also manufactures the Google Nexus One. Some smartphones use a mixed Android installation, and others include HTC's enhancement, Sense.
Sense is a user interface system based around widgets. Widgets are small, always on apps that run on your smartphone screen for specific tasks, such as posting Twitter updates or showing weather information. This is somewhat similar to Windows Gadgets on desktop computers. The screens use scenes centered around common activities, such as work and social media, and HTC created several custom widgets to make using smartphone activities easier. Sense also puts some information together, like combining Facebook with phone contact information.
Sense smartphones come with a PDF reader, which is very useful for reading attachments. It's also much easier to use Sense smartphones for web browsing, because Sense allows for typical 2-finger gestures.
Motorola may be more responsible for Android's popularity than any other smartphone manufacturer.
The Motorola DROID smartphone was heavily advertised as a competitor to the iPhone 4, and it became the first truly Android smartphone to hit the US market.
Motorola's user interface enhancement is Blur, which is meant primarily as a social networking feature that combines feeds from email messages and sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, and places such messages directly on the Home screen of your smartphone without the need to log into separate applications.
In January 2010, Google introduced its own Android smartphone and made the option to compete against other phone manufacturers in the Android OS phone market they've themselves created. Nexus One is the first official Google smartphone, and although it's made by HTC, it was sold by Google. Anyway, there are plenty of other Android offerings worth serious consideration.
Keyboard vs. Touchscreen
One way you can narrow down your choices for selecting your appropriate smartphone is by deciding if you're a keyboard or a touchscreen user.
If you feel uncomfortable with virtual keyboards, such as those offered on the iPhone, you'd go with a keyboard smartphone.
Keyboards can slide out, such as those on the T-Mobile G1 and the Verizon DROID, or they can flip out like the one on the Motorola FlipSide or Motorola FlipOut (both Android smartphones)
A keyboard adds bulk to your smartphone, but they're nice to have around when you'll need them.
No Keyboard will keep your smartphone slimmer and often means you'll get a much better quality screen. The Google Nexus One,
and HTC EVO all skip the slide-out keyboard. The HTC EVO Android smartphone will even allow you to do part of your text entry with your voice.
Do you have to take on-site pictures or video as part of your day-to-day duties? If that's so, you'll need to select a smartphone with a good camera. The HTC EVO Android and DROID Incredible currently take the largest photos.
You'll use the network every time you use your Android smartphone for anything other than talking. So, you should go for unlimited access if you can. Some companies charge more for smartphone data plans than they do for data access on regular phones, so be sure to check the small print before you commit yourself with a specific data plan.
If you plan on using your smartphone as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, you may also need to purchase a plan that specifically includes it.
Android smartphones generally have 2 prices: one is the actual cost of the smartphone, and the other is the price when purchased with a yearly contract. The reason smartphones are much cheaper with a contract is because the phone carrier charges you more every month to make up for the much lower price of the smartphone.
Often you end up paying much less overall when you buy a smartphone with contract, but it does mean you're locked into that contract and can't switch services, upgrade smartphones, or cut back on minutes without facing some sort of penalty (these restrictions are normally for the first 6 months of your contract).
Generally, the price of Android smartphones without subsidy is around $300 to $600. The price with a contract starts with $0.01.
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