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Market Outlook

The use of mobile communications is growing fast. How fast? Consider the following:

While the population of the world increases by a net 3 persons per second, there are 38 mobile handsets sold every second (Source: LiMo Foundation Research / IDB).

Today the number of mobile subscribers worldwide is nearly 3 Billion and growing rapidly: 1.2 Billion mobile devices are sold annually and analysts are projecting more than 4 Billion subscribers by 2010 (Source: GSMA).

While already proven as a powerful and scalable platform technology for mobile handsets, mobile Linux is expected to experience a surge of growth during the coming five years and to be the fastest growing handset operating system platform through this period.