Together, wireless multimedia phones will grow from $8B globally today to over $13B in 2007. This growth is in spite of little or no growth in customer demand.
In-Stat surveyed users in North America and found that, in spite of substantial marketing efforts by the major carriers, customers' interest was universally flat from early 2005 to 2006.
While the growth of dedicated MP3 players has been receiving a lot of press, the number of wireless phones that are capable of playing digital music files is also gaining a significant amount of press. Likewise, wireless phones that can play real-time or recorded video are also on a steep rise.