Comments on: The Global Rise of the Smartphone http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/ Mon, 20 May 2013 04:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: In 2011 Mobile Broadband Will Surpass Wired Broadband : Broadband News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-573445 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:02:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-573445 [...] jumped another 25 percent, reaching an estimated 500 million. That’s no coincidence, since smartphones running iOS, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and other mobile platforms are all on t… as compared to less-connected feature [...]

]]> By: Is It Time for Content Providers to Dump Feature Phones?: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-290490 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:10:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-290490 [...] take several years before the world’s nearly 5 billion mobile subscribers adopt smartphones; approximately 10 percent of the global population has already done so. Here in the U.S., the smartphone has the upper hand, as evidenced both by comScore’s data [...]

]]> By: Nokia’s Troubles Deepen, Key Exec Resigns « http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-274431 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:16:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-274431 [...] Nothing against Kallasvuo and Vanjoki, but “new blood” at Nokia is a good start because the smartphone market is growing faster than the low- to mid-end handset market that Nokia currently [...]

]]> By: With New CEO, Nokia Goes All-In On Software & Services « http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-273053 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:14:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-273053 [...] products that have been maturing over the past three to four years. And in the world of smartphone, which is growing far faster than the feature phone space, that’s an [...]

]]> By: Stacey Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-249821 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:12:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-249821 Right, that’s the point of the post. Smartphones are where it will increasingly be at.

]]> By: Brian Hall http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-249820 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:46:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-249820 The smartphone wars are on!

There are only 400 million smartphones in the world, while there are 4.6 billion feature phones. True. But — those 4 plus billion will soon be replaced with smartphones. That is the business to be in.

I am predicting Apple to at least double in value by 2016. Microsoft is toast.

]]> By: Dhanasekaran http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-global-rise-of-the-smartphone/#comment-249819 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:45:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=117113#comment-249819 This sounds global wireless goes high bandwidth. In India we are using 2G still. And introducing 3G.

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