Motorola expects two percent growth in the smartphone market before 2005, when smartphones will represent 10 percent of the total market, the article says.
Smartphones are devices that, in addition to a phone, provide the user with a mobile computing platform similar to an advanced PDA. They provide Internet access, and allow users to download and store files and even install and run applications.
Motorola expects smartphones to represent as much as ten percent of the global mobile phone market by the end of 2005, according to the
DigiTimes story. Market research firm ABI, meanwhile, has
has projected a 25 percent share of the cellphone market for smartphones by 2009, while IDC
found that smartphone shipments experienced 85.8 percent year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2004.
Motorola seems reticent to put all its smartphone eggs in one embedded OS basket, choosing instead to continue developing phones based on both Windows Mobile and Linux. In addition to the launch of the Windows Mobile based MPx220 in Japan today, the company also introduced the Linux-based
A780 and A768i, a tri-band version of the dual-band
A768.
The brief
DigiTimes story includes a specification comparison chart for the three new Motorola smartphones available in Japan. It can be found
here.
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