User Devices

The user devices industry segment entails categories of companies supplying consumers with portable devices, embedded technologies, and peripherals.

Portables
Manufacturers and distributors of handsets, including cellular phones, PDAs, smartphones, two-way pagers, telemetry and Telematics devices, wireless Internet appliances and other hybrids offer the gateways through which end-users communicate, access content, or conduct transactions. Companies that are well known for their wide range of data-enabled cellular phones and so-called smartphones, the combination of a cellular phone and a PDA, include Ericsson, Handspring, Kyocera, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony-Ericsson, Siemens, Touchpoint/LG, and others.

PDAs are supplied by an even larger group, including Acer, Audiovox, Casio, Dell, Fujitsu/Siemens, Handspring, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Palm, Research in Motion, Sony, Sharp, Symbol Technologies, T-Mobile, Toshiba, Viewsonic, Zayo, and others. Two-way pagers are currently marketed by Glenayre, Motorola, Research in Motion, and Skytel.

Taken From : Enterprise Guide to Gaining Business Value from Mobile Technologies