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Almost 40 years ago, Motorola''s Martin Cooper was the first to use a hand-held phone. It weighed in at a hefty two kilos and looked like he was talking into a black brick. Fast-forward to 2010 and mobile phones easily slide into our back pockets and weigh just a few grams. The biggest change is that mobile phones aren''t just phones that are mobile anymore. In the mid-1990s when mobile phone usage really took off on a mass scale, we didn''t know just how far our mobile phones would come. Smartphones are more like palm held computers and they have more power than desktop computers did a decade ago. The mobile market now stretches throughout the globe and at the end of 2009, there were 4.5 billion mobile phone subscriptions making it one massive industry. On the grand scale of mobile telecommunication, Smartphones are relatively new. In principal they were around back in 1992, but it wasn''t until the mid-2000s that they achieved commercial success and in the last 12-18 months sales have grown astronomically. Year-on-year sales of smartphones grew by 41% from 2008 to 2009. All the while sales of ''regular'' phones have declined. It''s not surprising really. Who would want a phone that can''t surf the Internet, can''t send emails, can''t download apps and basically can just call, take pictures and play music? Nobody when the alternative is to have a mini-computer in your hands. Smartphones are just that. They run on their own operating systems and have super amounts of memory. They can access the internet at super fast speeds and you can customise your ''home'' screens just as you would with a desktop or laptop computer. Nokia dominates the OS market just as much as it does the standard mobile world. It holds 44% of the OS market share, but RIM''s BlackBerry''s come in second with 19% and Apple''s OS is third at 10%, both making huge jumps in recent months. Newbe Android from Google has leaped into fourth place with 10%. Seeing as these three do not hold this share of overall phone sales, it proves that smartphones are definitely on the increase. One of the reason''s BlackBerry is doing so well is its expansion out of the business market, where it still is the main operator of choice. Phones now have touch screens like the Storm 2 and they are slim line and cool-looking like the Pearl 3G. The mobile phone market is highly volatile so it''s exciting to see what changes are on the way in the second half of 2010.
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Porter Ivrin is a writer with over 5 years experience in the communications technology market. They recommend Vodafone for the Blackberry Pearl handset.
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