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Originally Posted by haesslich
The majority of phones sold these days are NOT smartphones; they tend to fall into either the category of fashion phones (RAZR, KRZR, various RAZR knockoffs), camera phones (the Sony Ericsson Cybershots, etc), and MP3 phones..
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I have to say that by my definition, RAZR etc
are smart phones. Provided, that is, you are talking lowercase smart phone, rather than Smartphone :-)
It is almost impossibe to find a phone that doesn't have most of the following features:-
camera
email
calendar
sync with PC features
web browser
feature expansion via Java or Flash
music player
video player
Flash and Java have the ability to give the phone applications that can do almost anything.
These add up to a smart phone. In other words, the vast majority of new phones acquired in the last two years are 'smart'.
I don't doubt for a second that lots of people are now used to downloading ringtones, pictures and video. Downloading and installing applications is a less common thing, but it would be wrong to imagine tha tis not a growing market.
I strongly believe Apple are marketing the iPhone at consumers who like the canned device model - a device that switches on and works. It will come with plenty of software and toys to keep the majority of users happy, but over the next couple of years the more adventurous users will demand more expandability. Then the iPhone will be forced to evolve into something that can challenge Symbian and Windows Mobile for versatility and expandability.