The ongoing explosion in the mobile sector shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, all signs point to continued rapid growth and expansion into new segments, including advanced smartphones and portable media tablets.

Overall, the growth in the smartphone sector is dramatic, and has led to new ways of consuming information, and of interacting with people as well as with technology.

Smartphone App Downloads Touches 3.8 Billion Globally!

The worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion dollars within the first six months of 2010. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only 6 months, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009. Interesting to note that the average application prices steeped to $3.60 US per paid application in the first half of 2010. (Release of the new market report on the global smartphone application market including key market figures from 1st half year 2010 by research2guidance.)