2010 was the year Apple once again redefined the mobile landscape. Enterprises and consumers alike embraced the iPad, while the iPhone finally broke RIM's monopoly on secure smartphones, leading the pack in terms of new business units purchased. But here comes Android, the gawky platform that transformed into a must-have OS in 2010 -- and may surpass the iPhone in the near future.
But 2010 also doled out its share of mobile misery, with many devices left by the wayside -- road warrior roadkill, fatally injured by the mobile future Apple and Google are fast defining. Some of these products had clear warning but failed to make way. Others thought they could join the race, only to fall flat on their face and get run over by the ever-growing pack of quickly evolving mobile devices.
Here's a look at the mobile technologies that lost their way in 2010.
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