Microsoft expects sales of its Windows Mobile platform products will account for 40% of the global smartphone market in fiscal 2012 (July 2011-June 2012), according to Eddie Wu, managing director of Microsoft ODM embedded devices, Asia, Daniel Shen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“Microsoft currently focuses its efforts on promoting the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system and the company has no plans to launch Windows Mobile 7 until 2009, Wu stated.”
About 20% of mid- to high-end handsets are expected to adopt the Linux OS by 2013, estimates ABI Research.
Nearly 84-percent of the US population had mobile phones by the end of 2007,” according to SNL Kagen, and that figure should shoot to 100-percent by 2013, with some 18 to 20-percent using multiple mobiles. In 59 countries, mobile penetration is greater than 100%.
Informa adds that 90 per cent of the world’s population are now covered by mobile networks and that half of the world’s 6.6 billion population now has a mobile subscription.
New government data indicates that one in six American homes, or nearly 16%, had only mobile phones in the second half of last year. Moreover, more than one out of every eight homes, or 13.1 %, received all (or nearly all) calls on cellphones even though there was a landline telephone at the residence.
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