I really like this Stumptown coffee place, this one is in mid-town NYC. It is so much cooler than Starbucks. Don't you love the way the people dress? And the coffee is good. uses organic milk and organic coffee, and is cheaper than those expensive ones. who needs hostile coffee snobs first thing in the morning anyway, even I am in NYC. I hope they stays cool while they become popular. OK this post is not about coffee, it is about Smartphone.

It is funny people still refer some phones as smart phone and some not. Not only the lines are blurred and the market for phone-only phones are shrinking. I think the market are moving into a new segmentation as user behaviors will determine the emergence of different categories of phone/users. In the meantime, there is the IPhone, Balckberry, Superphone, Designer phone (Rolex phone coming), Andriod phone and just phone.

In the meantime, IDC today reported a record level of smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009, when vendors shipped 54.4 million devices. That's up 39% from the same quarter a year ago, the company said. The handset company with the largest growth in 2009 was Apple. Apple's unit shipments for the year were 25.1 million, up from 13.8 mil units in 2008. The company's market share rose from 9.1% in 2008 to 14.4% in 2009, an 81.9% year-over-year increase. Blackberry finished in second place with 34.5 mi shipments for 2009, an increase of 46.2% over 2008, and a 19.8% market share.

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