Five-Year Forecast for Consumer Portable Device Adoption

Yankee Group: US

• By 2009, the portable game business will be worth $2.3 billion

• One-half of all portable music players will be phone hybrids by 2009, yet these phones will account for only one-third of the portable music service revenue

• Dedicated digital audio devices will continue to be used more exclusively for their single purpose

• Game hand-held devices and phone hybrids will garner near equal share of revenue by 2009

In response to the diminishing divide between wireless handsets and portable CE devices, Y

US Portable Entertainment Forecast Publ. 20051024