LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and by now most of us have gotten used to it. It’s what 3G wants to be when it will grow up. According to a study, in five years from now, in 2013, 32 million people will get an LTE device and plan. How does that sound?
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Mobile browsers built-into your cellphones, PDA’s, and even your MP3 players (iPod Touch) have changed the outlook of a lot of people when it comes to mobile devices. A lot of people have finally realized the potential of this technology. Now, browsers in mobile devices have very limited capabilities, however, a lot of features are slowly being added into it and in fact, websites are changing their pages to tailoring it to the mobile browser market.

It is then no surprise when ABI research, a leading market research firm focused on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets, reported that the mobile browser market will probably grow to 1.5 Billion units by 2013.

The mobile browsers won’t probably be able to catch up to the PC-based browsers, but its definitely getting there. As mentioned, the things that are hindering mobile browsers, are its limitation, like the absence of important plug-ins such as Flash, AJAX, and the memory constraints of many phones.

ABI Research’s new study, The Mobile Browser Market analyzes the market for mobile browsing, examining the primary commercial offerings from independent browser vendors as well as evaluating the growing important of open-source solutions such as Webkit. The report also looks at the push towards web applications and the use of widgets for mobile devices.

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According to a report released by ABI Research, Nokia is ranked the top ranked Smartphone Vendor, based on the new Vendor Matrix released by the research company. The results are based on the most recent evaluation of worldwide smartphone vendors. Trailing the Finland-based company are Motorola and Research In Motion at second and third respectively.

With a market share of over 56% in 2006 in the global smartphone market, Nokia leads the pack, while according to analysts, Motorola, RIM and Sony Ericsson lag behind in implementation. The numbers are slightl different for North America, where Palm and RIM account for over 66% of the smartphone market thanks to the Treo and BlackBerry devices.

Rounding up the top 10 list of smartphone vendors:
1. Nokia
2. Motorola Inc
3. RIM
4. Sony Ericsson
5. Palm

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