Handset Growth Slows — Replaced By Features

Informa Telecoms & Media has released a report saying that growth in handset sales would slow down after 2008…although at that time its seems almost half the world will have a mobile phone. However…”Handset manufacturers will look to new features and supported services to rekindle growth over the next 5 years, with music player and mobile TV providing huge revenue-earning potential,” the report said.”
Which makes sense in markets like Europe and America, but most of the growth is expected to be in the developing world with low-end handsets. I suspect the battle will be how many features can be fit into a cheap phone…and whether the content providers currently targeting the whizz-bang market will find ways to get content to the low-end phones once the inital burst of high-tech content slows down.

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