IDC has released their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker numbers this week, and the firm expects the smartphone market to grow 49.2 percent in 2011.
Smartphone shipments will top 450 million this year, up from 303 million in 2010, says the tracker.
Says Kevin Restivo, IDC senior research analyst:
Overall market growth in 2010 was exceptional. Last year's high market growth ... [ read the full article ]
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Guess we'll see in a few years. Not saying it is going to happen but unless you have a Delorean and a flux capacitor you just have an opinion. Maybe theirs is too or maybe they have some data to back it up.
Originally posted by POGK: With advanced WP7 features being added like cut and paste, this has to be an accurate if not a down right conservative prediction!
Originally posted by POGK: With advanced WP7 features being added like cut and paste, this has to be an accurate if not a down right conservative prediction!
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To this day, I don't understand how people are such big fans of a Blackberry phones. They're boring, cumbersome, annoying, too business oriented and just played out. Die Blackberry Die!
Originally posted by lissenup3: Not surprised by this.
To this day, I don't understand how people are such big fans of a Blackberry phones. They're boring, cumbersome, annoying, too business oriented and just played out. Die Blackberry Die!
I was never a fan either but many business professionals loved them. I view them as a major contributor to molding what "smart" phones are today. The only problem is they were viewed as too "business" and not enough "play" and the market called for a phone that could do both and the same could be said about Windows Mobile phones.
I think that is where the iPhone came in. Initially (and in some ways still is) it was more about entertainment but then they added things like exchange support and business oriented apps were developed and so on.
After owning two iPhones the problem I see with iOS is that it seems to be tapering off. It has not offered anything really advantageous to the phone market since the iPhone 3G.
