They are getting thinner, faster, cheaper, and as an end result they are becoming the normal for people all over the globe. For the past few years there were the haves with disposable income, and have-nots on the border of carrying around a brick phone due to price restraints on smart phones. Technological analysts predict there will be over a billion smart phones in global circulation by 2011, and approximately 38% of all phones will be this type by 2012.[Source: LinuxDevices.com]. Apple reportedly has pre-sold 600,000 Iphone units in one day, and if that is any sign of what is to come these numbers will be far too low. Smart phones have made a real impact in the corporate business world, where execs transmit highly confidential information because they now can. One of the most important items on the design table is security issues, because this openness and configurability, comes with a downside which is vulnerability to viruses, and with users keeping there whole world all in one place, there are viruses which can actually lock the phone and erase all interior information. As it stands more security is enhanced for the operating system and behaviors rather than network security, and with all new blistering wifi speeds, there is just about no limit to what smart phones can do, and no limit to what hackers will come up with, but this is all changing with the open source developer involvement exploding into application development and security development that are being designed for these new devices. Mobile Smart Phone Technology is the fastest changing area due to no one company having a lock on designs or applications being designed for them, so what will the next phone look like? a small tablet? a new style of flip? one worn on the wrist? who knows, I guess we will all have to stay tuned to see and hope we will be able to upgrade the moment they are released!!