PC Mobile Phones
Welcome to PC Mobile Phones. Out of 1 billion camera phones to be shipped in 2008, PC Mobile Phones, the higher end of the market with full email support, will represent about 10% of the market or about 100 million units. Android, a cross platform Operating System for smartphones was released in 2008. Android is a platform backed by Google, along with major hardware and software developers. The first phone to use the Android Operating System was the HTC branded G1. The phone features a full, capacitive touch screen, a flip out QWERTY keyboard, and a track ball for navigating web pages. The software suite included on the phone consists of integration with Google’s proprietary applications, such as Maps, Calendar, and Gmail, as well as Google’s Chrome Lite full HTML web browser.
Applications for PC Mobile Phones actually give them their “intelligence”. In July 2008 Apple introduced its App Store with both for fee and free applications. The app store can deliver PC Mobile PHone applications developed by third parties directly to the iPhone or iPod Touch over wifi or cellular network without using a PC to download. The App Store has been a huge success for Apple and by June 2009 hosted more than 100,000 applications. This growth is incredible – as The App Store hit one billion application downloads on April 23, 2009.
