The analyst firm expects the mobile platforms to become more diverse through 2012 and thus there will be more demand for solutions that can lower the issues associated with delivering installable applications to several platforms.

People are high on smart phones and other mobile devices and in future, App stores will be the primary (and, in some cases, the only) way to distribute applications to these products. More than 75 per cent of devices shipped in mature markets will include a GPS by the end of 2011 and this technology will be the primary, but not the only, means of establishing handset location.

The availability of multi-megabit wireless broadband performance will continue to grow during 2010 and touchscreens will be included in over 60 per cent of mobile devices shipped in Western Europe and North America in 2011.

The M2M market is growing at more than 30 per cent per year and a good range of both national and multinational M2M service options will be available in mature markets in 2010 and 2011. Gartner says enterprises should also focus on device-independent security technology that can enable CIOs to deliver applications that can run on a variety of devices while reducing security risks.