Start Touchscreen Smartphone Market Dominance
Phone with touch screen technology began to dominate the smartphone market since the fourth quarter of 2009. Market analysts Canalys estimates that during the last quarter of 2009, mobile touchscreen control 55% of global handset shipments. Compared to the year 2008, the number of smart phone shipment increased approximately 138 percent.
In units, the number of touchscreen phones in the market reached 166 million units by the end of last year. Seeing the year 2009, it was not too surprising to see Apple in the top position for touchscreen mobile phones, other vendors such as Nokia also continues to follow without the Nokia 5800 and N97. Nokia is the vendor that shipped the most touchscreen phones in 2009,” said market analyst from Canalys, Tim Shepherd, as reported by Cellular-News.
The increasing number of touchscreen phones in circulation also boosting market potential. Canalys revealed from 4000 respondents, 60 percent of whom want a touchscreen phone. In the year 2010, the phone’s touch screen technology will be speaking at the market. Therefore, factors such as the design of user interface (UI) will be the key to success for vendors touch screen mobile phone market is.
Until now, Apple’s position in the market is still very strong, easy to access application content is key to continued success, and not only on the iPhone’s success also seems to be over iPad, gadgets that just launched. Smart phone capabilities also increased from Connectivity side. Mobile-phone connectivity in WI-Fi support also increased approximately 83 percent during the fourth quarter.
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