The smartphones has been the fastest growing category within the mobile phone space for the last couple of years. In 2009, a total of 172 million smartphones were sold which was a growth of 24% over 2008 (source: Gartner) whereas the mobile phone category was more or less flat in 2009 in the backdrop of severe recession. Analysts expect over 240 million Smartphones to...

  Greater focus on data services and fewer tariff wars as focus shifts to managing EBIDTA margins Both the handset manufacturers and operators would focus on the handset OS platform Smart Phones likely to be the fastest growing category amongst handsets Handset vendors to aggressively push GPS Mobile RSS Feeds and Widgets to emerge stronger Social Networking (esp. IM+eMail)...