Information Week just put out an interesting story about the "Top 10 Smartphone Advances of 2009" - a look back before we take a look at the year ahead.
The article spoke of Motorola's comeback on the coattails of the Linux-based Google Android mobile OS, with the two highlights of Motorola's year being the eminently customizable Motorol Cliq and the Motorola Droid.
Speaking of which, Google's Android rollout was probably the headline stealer of the smartphone year.
It spoke of Blackberry's jaunt over from the enterprise market into the mainstream consumer market with features in the coming BB Storm 2 that include WiFi and a boosted 2 GB onboard memory.
Meanwhile Microsoft (especially with its WinMo 6.5 Mobile OS) and Palm (particularly with its webOS smartphones the Palm Pre and its follow-up the Palm Pixi) both companies have been scrambling to get their footing as they keep losing ground to all the newer, younger, better competitors on the field. Surprisingly, and thanks to those newest release, the both don't same too far behind to stay in the game.
Apple's overhaul of the iPhone was a welcome highlight of the smartphone year, with issues like copy and paste and 3G network access being finally being addressed, as well as improvements in its digital camera, processor, storage space, even GPS and a digital compass.
And of course, 2009 saw the explosion of the mobile app market, across all platforms, as every smartphone maker scrambled to offer more and better and (when they're on their toes) more relevant apps to their user base, with the iTunes App Store leading the way and Blackberry App World nipping at its heels.
The list rounded out with Apple's lockout of Google Voice, Symbian's move to Nokia (and beyond), and PC makers, like Dell, staking their claim on a piece of the smartphone pie.
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