It was a trend that had begun several years ago(smartphone market share), but in 2009 the smartphone in the Netherlands really become mainstream. Teenagers run away with Blackberry, many people have bought an iPhone and there were many devices sold with Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android.
The biggest breakthrough, however, was the price: where smartphones until this year were payable only haste with expensive subscriptions, giving providers increasingly smartphones 'free' way in cheaper subscriptions. That's because the price of individual units is coming down. A full-featured smartphone, you can currently get for less than 300 euros with virtually every known OS. And then it was indeed just devices on the market.
Prices fell, but sales did not: the smartphone industry in 2009 showed the economic downturn surprised many to resist. The sector was not growing as fast as before, but was against the flow or increase in size, worldwide there were more smartphones sold than in 2008, according to Gartner almost one quarter more.
Tweakers.net looks back to 2009 in this overview. What happened this year? Obviously we can focus also give a preview to see what the future holds.
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