Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report identifying five hot topics that will emerge in the global mobile market.

Mobile Device Market Trends in 2008 reports that competition in mobile operating system (OS) and platform segment will intensify and the influence of Mobile Linux will increase in the market during 2008.

In addition, smartphone will strengthen its position, occupying 22% of the entire mobile market and will help increase web-based services on the mobile network.

The report also predicts that the User Interface (UI) will become more sophisticated, and it is adopted as a strategy to differentiate mobile handset and services in order to increase user demands. Therefore, handset vendors are expected to pursue mergers with UI companies while introducing a variety of new UI technologies.

Authors of the report identify the rising trends in the global mobile device market in 2008. The research material in this report is based on strategic research and consulting projects conducted in 2007 on the major mobile operators and handset vendors in Asia

“Mobile Device Market Trends in 2008” reports that in the Korean and Japanese markets, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Sharp continue to be aggressive players in the handset vendor segment. Among the major mobile operators in the advanced markets of Korea and Japan, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SK Telecom and KTF will take the lead in the device market of the two countries.

Mobile Device Market Trends in 2008

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