Posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
European consumers have been faster to adopt ‘smart’ mobile phones than their American counterparts, according to Telephia, the world’s largest provider of syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets. In Q3 2006, smartphone penetration in Western Europe was 8.8 percent among recent device buyers; more than double that of the U.S. which was 3.8 percent. A smartphone is a class of handsets with a mobile operating system such as Symbian, Microsoft OS, RIM or Palm.
