The Battle for the Smartphone Market
The battle for the smart phone market is heating up this year because the smart phone market is the only game in town. Although smart phones account for just 1 in every 7 mobile devices sold, this segment has doubled its share of the global mobile phone business over the past three years. Revenues from smart phones are expected to double, to half the industry total, by 2014. Recent figures from market research company Gartner confirm this trend. Gartner's figures showed that shipments of phones that allow web surfing, email and other popular software applications rose 27 percent in the…