This story appears in the
February 2000 issue of
Entrepreneur.
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At the peak of the technological boom, it seems like you can
never keep up with the latest and greatest. You buy something new,
and not even two minutes later, there's something better.
That has been the story of the telephone: we started with the
phone, then the touch-tone, the cordless, the carphone, the
mobile . . . does it ever end? Not just yet--the
"smart" phone, a phone and Internet in one, may sound
like just a luxury to you, but fifteen years ago, so was the
mobile, and now they're as indispensable as deodorant.
According to a report by Datacomm Research Company, "Web
Wonders: Opportunities for Smart Phones and PDAs," these
palm-sized devices will grab nearly 90 percent of mobile phone
sales within five years and shipments are expected to soar to 350
million units by 2003. At least we know they'll be around
'til then.
For a copy of the report, call (314) 514-9750 or go to the
Datacomm Web site at http://www.datacommresearch.com