2009 is Year of the Smartphone
If the year 2009 is to be called anything, it could be “Year of the Smartphone”. Whereas smart phones came into presence a couple of years back, it is this year when the device definitely appeared to shatter and virtually became a consumer must-have.
Motorola made quite a squelch this year by coming up with two great handsets. The Motorola Cliq was the company’s first Android smart phone and was furnished with great features that encompassed MotoBlur service, which aggregates the consumer’s information from various online sources such as Facebook and Twitter. But the company’s big moment came with the introduction of the Droid for Verizon Wireless, the major smart phone that featured Android 2.0.
Additional big champ is the Blackberry from Research In Motion (RIM), which entered into the conventional in 2009 and broke the stereotype that it was only used by the busy mobile professional. Conferring to RIM, 80% of its novel subscribers during the second quarter of 2009 were non-initiative customers.
And then, evidently, there is the iPhone 3GS. The stratagem was flying off the shelves virtually quicker than Apple can make them, and the business has seemingly sold above 21 million units of the iPhone.
2009 moreover saw a development in the stratagems that trait the Android operating system, with extra attractive units coming from HTC, Samsung, LG Electronics and Motorola. Meanwhile there were smart phones in basically every corner, there needed to be a sturdy supply of apps that can be downloaded to make life easier – and app stores that sell them. The Apple App Hoard now brags of more than a hundred
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