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‘Big Seven’ smart phone applications will drive hardware designs, says research


SUCCESSFUL SMART PHONE manufacturers must accommodate seven core applications in their next-generation handset designs.Know as the ‘Big Seven’, these applications include email, games, social networking, instant messaging, mapping and directions, music and radio, and weather.  Combined, the apps will account for 7 billion downloads worldwide in 2014, according to a new report from In-Stat called Worldwide Smartphone Application Market: Revenues and Downloads. “In-Stat tracks 26 different categories of smart phone applications,” said VP of research, Frank Dickson. “A designer can optimize a handset for any one of the application categories. However, it's the big seven applications that phone designers need to...