Was 2008 the year of the smartphone?

Image via CrunchBaseThe BBC's Mark Ward reports that 2008 was the year of the smartphone, citing the launches of "iconic devices such as the iPhone 3G, Google G1, Blackberry and Nokia N97" as evidence.

What's also really interesting is how social media-on-the-go is far more common now than it was last year. Personally speaking, since getting my Blackberry earlier this year, I spend a lot more of what would have been downtime (for example, waiting for a cab or bus) on Twitter or Facebook. I would think this has to do with a combination of technology (i.e. smartphones) and the fact that services and hardware seem to have become a lot cheaper than they were last year.

Any thoughts?

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