The growth of wireless devices is transforming our society. It is estimated that there are 241 million mobile phone users in the United States. This represents approximately 80% per capita mobile phone penetration. According to industry estimates, mobile phone penetration will reach 100% in the U.S. by 2013.

Smartphones are playing a significant part in this growth. A Smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities such as multimedia playback, email, web browsing, GPS positioning, digital camera and more. U.S. sales of smartphones grew by 23% in the last quarter of 2008 and 20% in the first quarter of 2009.The premier example is the Apple iPhone. With the average price of smartphones dropping, they will continue to make up a large part of the overall market.

Smartphone adoption creates a significant opportunity for content providers. Businesses can increase sales, improve customer service and streamline operations. Organizations can reach out to their communities, grow their membership, and give a strong push to realization of goals.

Businesses and organizations can create or maintain a competitive advantage by establishing a mobile presence. Capitalizing on the smartphone's capabilities creates distinct opportunities for Mobile Applications

Consider these advantages:

• Smartphones offer the features of a personal computer that you hold in your hand. Most users have their cell phone with them at all times.
• Connectivity - 3G provides an "always on" connection to the internet. Built-in Wi-Fi extends the capability to deal with large amounts of information.
• Mobile Web - Web sites developed for smartphones provide the same rich experience for the user as web sites accessed from a PC. The Apple iPhone represents 50% of all smartphone web traffic in the U.S
• Multimedia - there are now over 10 million mobile phone subscribers in the U.S. accessing mobile video content each month.
• Mobile Applications - most smartphone manufacturers provide a rich development environment for creating applications that run on their devices. For example, Apple's iTunes App Store offers over 40,000 applications available for their iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

• iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application development
• Android application development
• Windows Mobile 7 application development
• Mobile Web application development
• Content Management Solutions
• Mobile Content Distribution

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