The previous year was a great one for mobile phones, as new models and discoveries gave the mobile landscape a very interesting look over the months. New smartphones made their debuts, with increasingly versatile and efficient feature sets meshing well with faster operating systems and powerful integrated hardware. Indeed, companies seemed determined to prove to themselves and their user bases that the mobile phone has indeed come a long way since the day of bulky early models that could only make and receive voice calls. Between the battle for smartphone supremacy and sheer multitude of customizable applications available to users, mobile phones were the focus of a lot of attention in 2009.