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Market research firm In-Stat forecasts that the smartphone market (smartphone) will boom strongly in the next 5 years. Each year the market will achieve an average growth rate of over 30%.

This number far exceeds the average growth rate of the global mobile phone market. Accordingly, in the period of 2007-2012, the growth rate of the mobile phone market will only stop at one digit level.

The forecast in the near future with the popularity of the trend of working with smartphones will gradually replace the role of laptops in the corporate environment. The number of smartphones consumed in the global market will far exceed the number of laptops sold.

Price reduction = growth

Currently smartphones have begun preparing for the ' boom ' in the future. Many mobile device manufacturers have also begun to pay attention to this product line. Research In Motion (RIM) recently launched Pearl in the market. Meanwhile, Samsung has Blackjack, Motorola has Motorola Q, Palm has Centro and Apple has recently launched the most anticipated smartphone of the year - iPhone.

In addition to mobile email services, smartphones also provide users with a range of other services such as integrated messaging or web integration services. For example, RIM manufacturer recently launched a service that integrates virtual social networking Facebook and a smartphone with the famous Blackberry smartphone. At the same time Palm also announced the integration of MySpace directly into Centro. In addition, these smartphones also integrate a variety of multimedia features such as listening to digital music, watching videos .

However, the key factor to promote the strong growth of the smartphone market is price. Compared to before, the current price of smartphones has greatly decreased. For example, the recently released Palm Centro has only been sold for $ 99. Similar to Samsung Blackjack, it only costs 100 USD.

The smartphone market is expected to grow even stronger as Google recently launched the Android open source mobile operating system market. If Google finds a solution to integrate ads directly into this mobile platform, the 'giant' in the search field will be the driving force behind the falling prices of smartphones and data services.

Enter the business environment

Mr. Bill Hughes - Analyst of In-Stat - said users really have experienced and identified the true added value that smartphones can bring. The amount of mobile applications that users download will also increase sharply. This means that the revenue that the service provider gains will increase rapidly.

Recognizing the user's needs, in the near future, the company will start to gradually think about using smartphones and data applications to go along with the daily business.

' Future businesses will see the cost of using wireless voice and data services accompanying smartphones is the cost of doing business instead of reimbursing this cost for employees to use. This is a direction that is considered reasonable and will help businesses reduce a lot of investment costs '.

All will be good news for the global mobile industry. Smartphone manufacturers will have the opportunity to market more products. More products mean the profits of mobile operating system developers like Microsoft or Symbian will also skyrocket. Mobile service providers are happy to see their service revenue increase strongly following the increase in the number of smartphone users.

Hoang Dung