According to a summary market research report from Allied Business Intelligence (ABI), wireless handset operating systems (OSs) and middleware have started playing an increasingly important role for OEMs/ODMs. After a long tradition of handsets equipped with firmware/proprietary OSs, current Smartphones offer standardized platforms allowing flexibility to communicate seamlessly among various devices. Besides the obvious cost advantages that come along with standardized OS/middleware to the handset makers, users also benefit from the pool of applications that are developed based on these platforms. Technology research firm ABI forecasts that about 150 million Smartphones will be sold in 2008.

Read more of the summary report at DeviceForge.com.

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