Smartphones to Take Over

Good news for companies that bought into mobile phone service in its formative years, this article unveils how intelligent cell phones, or smartphones, are taking over. Smart phones are mobile phones running a high level operating system, like a iPhone or Android. Reports show that smart phones are rapidly taking out other hand held devices, from the pager in the late nineties to the more current palm pilot, it seems nothing is safe. Companies that invested in such doodads as handheld electronic calendars are now losing money due to the increase in smartphone holders. To date 17 percent of mobile phone service subscribers own a smartphone, and sales in these other technological tools have all but stopped.

Smartphones are expected to continue their growth in share in the market. The main risk critics of smartphones have pointed out that because these phones are part of a mobile network and users can download any application or program that they want the phones pose major security risks. Hackers can write codes that will leach personal information off of phones and send them to the hacker.