Market analysis firm The Yankee Group has published a new report looking at the development of the Palm pre and how Palm and Sprint—two companies desperate to put themselves back on the map—worked together to try to create a blockbuster device. But the report also contains a few interesting items about the anticipated future of the mobile phone market: for instance, it claims that some 41 percent of consumers are likely to choose an “advanced OS” phone—e.g. a smartphone—as their next mobile phone. And these aren’t necessarily inexperienced folks going for the glitz: according to the Yankee Group, the average U.S. consumer has had four mobile devices already, and is looking to their fifth.
