Mobile Platforms Battle getting hot at the Top

Global players like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, RiM etc are trying their best to woo the end customers by incorporating better feature sets in their mobile platforms

There is a subtle war going on - the war for mobile supremacy. And the mobile platform has become the fiercely fought battlefront for global handset players.

Even though some of the major mobile manufacturers had planned to minimize the monopolistic scenario, it's not getting perfect for anyone – especially the top of the mobile players. And as a result, mobile manufacturers and developers are trying to write new rules of the mobility game.

Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian , Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry and Samsung are unveiling their own set of application stores over the net and trying their best to woo the end customers.

While the mobile industry is flooded with ideas like comprehensive mobile platform, the consumers prefer a simple but innovative platform. Maybe as needs grow endusers will be gravitated towards a truly open-source platform and they will expand the mobility driven sophistication on their own.

According to the UK-based market research and comsulting firm, Wireless Expertise, the global sales of smartphones will increase from around 165.2 million in 2009 to 422.96 million in 2013, and escalating the total number of smartphone using community to 1.6 billion on a global scale and volume. The firms market research also forecasted that the global market for smartphone applications and games which was worth $4.66 billion in 2009, will eventually rise to $16.60 billion, in 2013.

In the present scenario, mobiles outnumber the PCs by 4:1, which represents, even bigger chances for mobile industry. As a lot of analysts are predicting, in the very near future, mobile service providers will release APIs which will be addressing fragmentational issues and will grow to create multiple channel application services, retail mobile content with payment module integration. All the above areas are set to play a vital role when it comes to deciding the mobile winners of future.