The GfK Group is one of the world’s leading market research organizations. Download this detailed study which looks at all aspects of the mobile handset market around the world – market size + growth, smartphones, global brands, form factors, music capability, TV, GPS, etc.

Some of their interesting conclusions:

• Africa, Asia and Arab countries are driving growth of handsets;
• mobile music purchases are shifting toward full track downloads, driven by lower prices and wider catalogues;
• in the UK, 45% of all mobile entertainment revenue in 2007 has come from 3G phones, which represent only 16% of total handsets.