Phone Systems: In-Stat: Productivity tools now over half of smartphone app revenues

Although news and entertainment applications represent the majority of total smartphone app downloads, productivity tools like mapping, business and enterprise solutions now generate 59 percent of all smartphone software revenues according to new data issued by market intelligence firm In-Stat. The Games and Music/Radio categories lead all news and entertainment downloads, In-Stat reports--social networking, messaging and email applications also remain popular, with mobile VoIP enjoying the most significant growth in 2010.

Apple's iPhone operating system continues to dominate both premium and free application downloads. However, In-Stat notes that downloads across Google's rival Android platform are growing at the fastest overall rate.