For all its success in mobile phones, Samsung is an also-ran in the global smart-phone market.
Take one look at the smart-phone market, and it's easy to see a murderer's row.
What is even more worrying is the impact this can have on the global smart-phone industry.
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That would be a new front in Apple's war to seize control of the smart-phone market.
Third-party developers have created many apps that access the data for smart-phone users.
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Apple and Samsung have roughly co-equal global shares of the high-end smart-phone market.
Google has copied and replicated Apple core offerings with its G-neric Droid smart-phone, Android tablets, Chromebook, and Google Music Store.
The market researcher IDC Thursday lowered its forecast for global smart-phone sales in 2009, predicting 3.4% growth down from 8.7%.
And based on other studies on the intensity of smart-phone use, we can guess that Smartphoniacs skew male, affluent and well-educated.
The slogan has been used by Apple to hammer home what the company feels is a major advantages over its smart-phone rivals.
Blackberry devices were the unquestioned dominant player in the corporate smart-phone space.
The boldest conglomerate is News Corporation, which sells online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and will begin charging for the newspaper's smart-phone applications.
The jump, however, from the smart-phone to photon torpedoes is massive and it all hinges on the concept of the exponential acceleration of technological advancement.
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She has written a smart-phone app that lets users study their genetic data to find any correlations between known efficacy rates for drugs associated with certain genes.
The South Korean company has rushed to remedy that with its own smart-phone platform, Bada, and by producing mobile phones that use Google's low-cost Android operating system.
Anurag Gupta, a telecoms entrepreneur, has reduced a bank branch to a smart-phone and a fingerprint scanner that allow ATM machines to be taken to rural customers.
Unlike the Journal's Web site, or its smart-phone apps, the iPad version blends much more of the look and feel of the print paper into the electronic environment.
Increasing competition in the smart-phone market may squeeze RIM later.
In its struggle to remain relevant in the fast-growing and lucrative smart-phone market, Microsoft is going after a young, always-connected audience with its new line of Kin smart phones.
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Whether the platform is a smart-phone, a tablet computer like the iPad or the open internet, the key to success for most publications will be a dual revenue stream.
Handset-makers and carriers have been pulling out all the stops to match or one-up the iPhone, which has quickly grabbed a 25% share of the North American smart-phone market.
But since Apple already dominates smart-phone sales through existing partners, "sooner rather than later, Apple is going to have to look to find incremental distribution, " said Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
About 139.3 million smart phones were sold world-wide last year, and half of U.S. smart-phone users report using their devices more today than they did just three months ago.
"There's far more scrutiny now, " says Max Belenitsky, an entrepreneur who spent the past two years trying to get investors to notice his Text-A-Cab smart-phone reservation system for taxis and limousines.
While both Apple and Microsoft started with the affluent, Google will be trying to crack the smart-phone market from the bottom up, industry sources say (Google declined to comment for this story).
They borrow much more money than they lay out to buy homes and autos, which leverages the importance of that spending compared to buying a new pair of jeans or a new smart-phone.
That the iPhone 5 might get one third of the iPhone market, or one third of the smart-phone marketplace, or possibly even one third of all phone sales: all seem possible with lowering levels of probability.
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Hewlett-Packard is said to have killed the Slate, which was to be based on Microsoft's Windows, and is now reportedly working on a tablet using an operating system from Palm, the smart-phone maker that HP recently bought.
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The struggling smart-phone company delivered the demo many believed it didn't have in it on Thursday, showing off features that match--and in some ways improve on--the Apple iPhone that kicked off the touch-screen phone fad two years ago.
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