The latest statistics released by 51job.com show that in October, the mobile Internet and smartphone talents showed strong momentum. The number of positions and salaries both indicated a prosperous demand. According to the search on 51job.com, in the past week, there were nearly 400 job positions related to "smartphones" and "hardware development". Among them, 45% of the positions were announced by private enterprises, 19% by foreign enterprises; in terms of salary, excluding "negotiable", the most positions offered a monthly salary of 10,000-14,999 yuan. Wang Jian, a career expert at 51job.com, introduced that generally speaking, personnel related to smartphone hardware development need to be familiar with the basic principles and relevant knowledge of mobile communication, as well as various digital circuits and analog circuit knowledge. They should have strong embedded system development skills and practical experience, and be familiar with hardware architecture and related smartphone design platforms. Rich project experience and good English reading ability are the keys to widen the salary gap. Wang Jian reminded that since now is the peak stage of smartphone development, some mobile phone enterprises lack real technology and patents. For newcomers who hope to have a good career plan and development, they need to be careful when choosing enterprises. In addition, in the past week, there were nearly 3,000 job positions related to "mobile Internet", and most of the working locations were concentrated in the four first-tier cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Industry insiders analyzed that most of the talents in mobile Internet application development are transformed from web talents, and it takes at least six months to learn a mobile development platform. The scarcity of mobile application development talents has become the biggest limiting factor for the development of mobile Internet.