Shipments of multimedia handsets to outnumber TV sets next year.
MultiMedia Intelligence predicts that multimedia handset shipments will reach 300 million units in 2008 - which it claims will eclipse sales of TV sets.The market analyst classes multimedia handsets as devices with at least a one megapixal camera, MP3 audio, video playback, Java, USB, Bluetooth, 16-bit screen color, QVGA resolution, WAP and MMS.
The company estimates sales of such handsets will reach $76 billion in 2008.
Frank Dickson, chief research officer at MultiMedia Intelligence, said: "Handset manufacturers are racing to meet the consumer and operator demands for increasingly feature-rich multimedia handsets, while controlling handset cost and power consumption. The result is the mobile phone has become the world’s most ubiquitous entertainment platform."
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