Infonetics has an interesting piece on the resilience of Smartphones in the current economic climate. Despite a projected 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, Smartphones are expected to “show modest growth in 2009, and will be the only mobile phone segment to maintain annual revenue growth over the next five years, and the only to post double-digit annual revenue growth from 2011 through 2013.”
Also, Smartphones outperformed other cellular “market segments” in 2008 and actually showed growth in the second half of the last year.