Big players like the Finnish brand Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG and Samsung whose phones are not only stylish but functional as well rule the market. They account for over 80% of the mobile handsets sold and produced in most countries. Other phone manufacturers such as Alcatel, Sharp, Apple and a dozen more companies then follow suit.
Based on research, some countries in the European region now have more mobile phones than people. This means a greater number of subscriptions than the actual population count. The world's estimated number of mobile phone users is pegged at 2.14 billion back in 2005, and at the rate things are going, estimates of mobile users are expected to still balloon in the years to come.
Since its first introduction to the market in the 1980s, the mobile phones have totally evolved in nature. Previously, it was seen only as expensive business equipment for the rich, but in less than 20 years, it has managed to evolve itself into something equivalent to a personal necessity. It has long surpassed the use of landline phones and generated
Texting as we call it allows mobile users to send and receive messages from other handset users at a predetermined number of characters their mobile phone supports. Not only that, mobile phones right now are getting sophisticated at the minute with various built-in features that users can really enjoy such as an integrated camera, radio, multi-media player and others more. You may even get these features from cheap mobile phones.
These mobile phones can also serve as a fashion pole which can be custom-decorated by the owner depending on his or her own personality. Cell phone custom decoration such as downloading of themes, wallpapers, ring tones and the likes is in itself a booming business, one which generates the providing network a generous amount of profit notwithstanding the other services they provide the public alongside these from a local phone shop or online store.
David Webster is an expert on mobile phones and the telcomms industry
