The World Market for Mobile Handset Operating Systems - 2009 Edition

The increases in mobile data and application use in recent years have highlighted the importance of the mobile handset OS across the mobile handset industry. With the creation of multiple royalty-free platforms and numerous application distribution channels, business models in the OS market are changing as well. Additionally, falling chip prices have created a class of full featured RTOS based mobile handsets. This report examines how trends in the smartphone OS, RTOS, and mobile application markets are altering the mobile handset landscape.

The report features detailed analysis of the smartphone OS market, the real time operating system (RTOS) market, and the broader mobile OS ecosystem, including the following:

• Analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) relevant to each of the major smartphone operating systems.
• SWOT analysis of the commercially available RTOS solutions for mobile handsets.
• Worldwide forecasts for mobile handset shipments by tier and region.
• Worldwide forecasts for smartphone OS shipments to 2014.
• An examination of the developer communities and application distribution channels for each key smartphone OS.
• Thorough analysis of the royalty-based licensing, proprietary, and open source business models used by OS providers in the market today.
• Breakdown of the emerging trends in the OS ecosystem, including application portability, embedded virtualization, mobile handset security, mobile browsing, and user interface (UI).

The report will quantify and analyze the current worldwide market for mobile handset operating systems, including the following segmentation:

By Handset Tier

• Smartphone
• Feature Rich
• Basic Feature
• Ultra-Low Cost

By Smartphone Operating System

• Apple OS X
• LiMo Platform
• Microsoft Windows Mobile
• OHA Android
• Palm Garnet
• Palm WebOS
• RIM - Blackberry OS
• Symbian

By License Type

• Open Source OS
• Commercially Licensed OS
• Proprietary OS

By Geographic Region

• Asia
• Americas
• Europe
• Middle East & Africa
• World