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Five Trends to Watch in Mobile Devices

devices are already field upgradable, operators dont want you to have this capability on the cheap phones. it takes up too much ota bandwidth.

You can already replace themes etc.... on just about every phone on the market.

the big guys can build out ecosystems but they still have to get operators to agree to let them be accessible on operator versions.

Consolidation is happening on platforms, google, symbian!! whats new in the article?

phones are already lifestyle devices ... else why would the refresh rates be so high?