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Smart phones continue to accelerate, but Microsoft smartphone still fails

Time: 03:52 EST/08:52 GMT | News Source: msmobiles.com | Posted By: Alex Harris

Within the volume of worldwide handset shipments, the market for converged handheld devices, or ´smartphones,´ continues to accelerate. In the second quarter of 2003, the worldwide converged handheld device market grew 330.7% year-over-year and 12.0% sequentially to 1.97 million units. The converged device market now makes up 1.7% of the total mobile phone market, compared with only 0.5% in the same quarter one year ago. [...]these devices may also include an expanding list of features, such as multimedia or email. These devices must match wireless telephony capability to evolved operating systems or application environments, such as the Palm OS, Microsoft Pocket PC Phone Edition 2002, Microsoft Windows Smartphone, and the Symbian platform.