Article: Market Growth of Full-Featured Handsets Will Spark Full-On Mobile Platform Wars; Zelos Group: Mobile Electronics Sector Will be Redefined as Nearly Half of All Mobile Handsets Will be Based on Full-Feature Operating Systems by 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Zelos Group predicts by 2008, sales of full-featured handsets, mobile phones that incorporate full-featured operating systems, will grow to about 290 million, or about 43 percent of global handset sales. Mainstream adoption of these devices will have a significant, disruptive impact on the entire mobile electronics sector -- in markets for wireless, personal electronics and computing technologies.

"The mass adoption of full-featured handsets will be disruptive," said Seamus McAteer, senior analyst and managing partner, Zelos Group, the report's author. "Consumers will substitute use of PDAs, digital cameras, gaming consoles ...

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