Mobiles sales to reach a billion

Gartner Group has released research to suggest that the mobile device will be the most common electronic device in the world, with predicted sales of over a billion handsets per year by 2009. All bodes well for things like Flash Lite I guess ... they say that smartphones will have about 20% of that market. Now if Flash Lite remains on that level of phone, we're still talking about 200 million handsets which isn't bad.

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