Smart phones fastest-growing handset.
eWeek report: '"Smart phone sales broke all records in the first quarter of 2005, and we expect them to double year on year to 2006," said Roberta Cozza, a principal analyst at Gartner.'
Smart phones made up 8.4m, of the 180m handsets shipped in 2005Q1. Symbian is the market leader, although Microsoft shipped 2.9% and Linux powered 14%.
eWeek also report Gartner predicting that 1b handsets a year will be sold by 2009. In comparison the estimate for 2005 is 779m. The prediction is also that smart phones will account for more than 20% of all handset sales by 2008.
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