Seven smartphone predictions for 2010

What will happen with smartphones in 2010? 1) Smartphones will grab an even bigger share of the overall mobile phone market. 2) AT&T will lose its exclusive rights to sell the iPhone. 3) The Android mobile operating system will take off. 4) Mobile application stores will continue to balloon. 5) Location-based services will get their due on smartphones. 6) The Federal Communications Commission will compromise with wireless carriers on network neutrality. Regulators will give wireless carriers some sort of permission to restrict huge data downloads by a few users who sap bandwidth from the vast majority of users. The result will be that carriers will inevitably charge much more for large data downloads. 7) More types of devices, like e-readers, will emerge.