Smart phone - the choice of client platform for mobile commerce

In this article, we present a theoretical foundation for proposing smart phone as the choice of client platform for mobile commerce (M-Commerce). After describing smart phone's great market potential and its popularity in telecom world, we provide the details of system requirements and the ideal characteristics of the client platform from system viewpoint and from benchmark metrics aspect. Although the current smart phone design still has some way to go before its becoming an ultimate platform, the improvement in smart phone design and the technological advances will reach the stage of its being used as M-Commerce platform over the next few years. We thus advance the notion of smart phone as the choice of client platform in M-Commerce world, pending resolving some technical issues. We believe the theoretical foundation proposed in this paper provides a sound framework for designing smart phone ideally suited for its use in M-Commerce. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.