Driving factors for recession proof Smartphones’ sales

Today, Smartphones have become the daily necessity for corporate users and next generation. They are not only revolutionizing the mobile phone industry, but also changing the way we use computers. It is reported that Smartphone sales are expected to rise 22% in 2009. However, due to global recession, the demand for the mobile handsets will see a slump of 21% in 2009, according to a research firm.

Majority of telecom vendors like Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson had been either suffering from sharp losses or fighting hard to stay profitable. But, why Smartphones are not suffering in the recession? The multimedia factor and wide variety of entertainment that Smartphones offer are the basic reasons for their popularity. The other reasons for the success of Smartphones in the market are:

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Sony Ericsson has certainly succeeded in creating a compact Smartphone messenger with the Xperia X10 Mini Pro!

The new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro is the worlds smallest Android Smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard; it comes with a super intuitive interface, a digital camera, a very good web browser and a multimedia centre. The X10 Mini Pro also integrates your social networks together for a complete SNS overview and there is support for multiple messaging and e-mail services.

Sony Ericsson have managed to produce a cute yet functional device in the form of the Xperia X10 Mini Pro; despite the extra few millimetres and grams it looks almost exactly like the X10 Mini, the main display is a 2.6inch QVGA touch screen its very responsive and utilises a built-in accelerometer so you can flip to landscape mode and take advantage of the keyboard, this mode is also useful for browsing the internet. The phone in general is hard to put down; its screen is very responsive and boasts the four corner menu tabs where you can drag-and-drop your favourite widgets so they are never more than a simple thumb tap away. Sony Ericsson have opted for the Android 1.6 version which translates very well into the super compact format and the fantastic TimeScape overlay which has already been successfully downsized to fit the X10 Mini has been included in this model too! Effectively TimeScape integrates all of your social network activity with your contacts, missed calls and messages, tweets from Twitter and updates from Facebook, they are all brought together in one application and organized with the latest events on the surface. The X10 Mini Pro delivers a pretty good web browsing experience, the WebKit browser is supported by 3G network coverage and Wi Fi connectivity; they both offer reliable, high speed connections to the web and the 600MHz processor seems to send you through pages at almost warp speed. Well the phone does supply a dedicated Facebook application so you can handle you account, manage your profile and update your status, generally it works very nicely and its quite easy when you master the QWERTY keyboard.

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