Smartphone

Over the last few years, 36 millions smart phones were sold in first quarter of 2009 alone, representing 13.5% of all mobile device sales in that period (source: Gartner). This trend suggests people continue to adopt an increasingly mobile lifestyle, creating the need to be more productive while on the move. As more users rely on mobile phones for their data needs, businesses will need to reach these mobile customers leading to a growing market focus on smart phone applications. Smart phones will be increasingly be in the hands of consumers. About 1 in 4 consumers will have a smart phone by the end of 2013.

A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with PC-like functionality (PC-mobile handset convergence). There is no industry standard definition of a smartphone. For some, a smartphone is a phone that runs complete operating system software providing a standardized interface and platform for application developers. For others, a smartphone is simply a phone with advanced features like e-mail, Internet and e-book reader capabilities, and/or a built-in full keyboard or external USB keyboard and VGA connector. In other words, it is a miniature computer that has phone capability.

Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, large screens and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years.

Current type of smart phones include the Android, BlackBerry, iPhone,Windows Mobile, etc. These smartphone typically allow you to download applications and the different smartphones support different platforms. iPhone apps support development in Objective C. Android,Blackberry and other smartphones all their their own flavor of support.