Smartphone shipments today are on the rise, with a 44% projected growth rate through 2008. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) shipments are on the decline. Cell phones have huge shipping volumes.

Cell phone vendors have been using nameless proprietary operating systems, which were designed for basic telephony and simple user interfaces. Their capabilities have been stretched to the maximum and cannot support "Smartphone" functionalities. Cell phone vendors have sensed this huge opportunity and are leveraging new technologies to enhance their market share. "I am comfortable in saying that we expect the market for convergence devices like smartphones to double to 100 million units in 2006," Chief Executive Jorma Ollila told a Nokia conference in Spain. Smartphones, as voice-centric mobile devices and the driving force behind power electronics development, are an emerging and changing technology.

"The market for converged mobile devices, or smartphones, demonstrates strong growth potential as both enterprises and consumers continue to show interest in improved devices combining data and telephony capabilities," says David Linsalata, analyst in IDC's Mobile Devices program.

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Comprehensive review of Smartphone operating systems technology (Symbian,Windows Mobile, Linux, and Palm OS).
Role of middleware such as Java and .NET on these advanced operating systems.
Extensive case studies on how Smartphones enhance user productivity and encourage deployment of newer
innovative applications.
Study application security solutions for Smartphones in great detail.
Smartphone reference solutions that have been rolled out by leading cell phone vendors (Samsung, Philips, TI, and Freescale).
Examine functionality on existing leading Smartphones (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Palm Treo).
Present current market share data for leading Smartphone manufacturers.
Smartphone market share projections from leading research companies (IDC, Canalys, ABI).
Companies Mentioned:

Access

Adobe

Apple

Arima Computer Corporation

ARM

AudioVox

BBC

BENQ

BOSE

Casio

Celesta

DTT

Duodecim

E2000+

E-muzed

Esmertec

Eurodata

F C Barcelona

Freescale Semiconductor

Fujitsu

Gartner

Geotrust

Haier

Harman/Kardon

IBM

i-Mate

Infineon

Intel

JBL

Kaba

Lenovo

Lynx Technology

Metroworks

Microsoft

Mitsubishi Corporation

Montavista

Motorola

NEC

NetiKos

Nissan

Nokia

NTT DoCoMo

O2

Opera Software

Palm

Palm Source: An Access Company

Panasonic

Paul Smith

Pfizer

Philips

Psion Teklogix

Q Sound Labs

Qualcomm

Real

Remote Office Access Devices (ROAD)

Samsung

Scanbuy

Sennheiser

Sharp

Siemens

Solvay

Sony Ericsson

Sun Microsystems

Superscape

Symbian

Telefónica

Texas Instruments

Transmeta Corporation

Trolltech

UIQ

VeriSign

Verizon

Zeiss

ZTE

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