Disqus
Contact Us
We love getting feedback from our readers - we'd love to hear what you liked or disliked, what you'd like to see in the future, or simply what you think of IntoMobile. No suggestion or critique is too small or overlooked.
Contact UsLatest Research News
Love your new Android phone? You won’t for long
Flash back to 2009: You just bought a brand new Motorola Droid, the first phone to run Android 2.0 and one of the very first Android handsets to successfully compete with the iPhone. Your friend, however, decided to buy a recently released iPhone 3GS. Now jump ahead to the present: You and your friend still own those same phones, but which one out of the two feels like a worthless piece of crap? The Motorola Droid. This is the case with many Android and BlackBerry devices — they lose their … Read more
George Tinari
Juniper Research: Consumer mobile app revenues to pass $50 billion by 2016
Everyone and their mama are using apps these days, and we’re everything but surprised to learn there’s money to be made in this market. According to Juniper Research, we’re talking about some serious cash, with annual revenues from consumer mobile applications set to approach $52 billion by 2016. Juniper’s report found that the introduction of operator billing across storefronts such as the Android Market and Ovi Store had led to a dramatic rise in revenues. Likewise, the mass deployment of in-app billing options meant that, for many storefronts, post-download revenues … Read more
Dusan Belic
The mobile app economy: 311,000 jobs and counting
Remember when apps basically didn’t exist for phones? There were a handful but there was never a popular marketplace for mobile apps and success stories from developers were unheard of. It’s hard to believe this time existed only five years ago in 2007. Fast forward to 2012 and consumers can’t get enough apps: over one billion downloads per month on average. More importantly, this has created what is now known as the app economy. Thousands of jobs have been created over the past five years for app development and the … Read more
George Tinari
How to solve the spectrum crisis? Get rid of some carriers
We keep on hearing about this looming spectrum crisis and if you ask the carriers, the answer if for the government to make more spectrum available. But what if the real solution is to reduce the amount of carriers? A study from The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies (got all that?) finds that reducing the number of mobile carriers would help ease the strain on wireless spectrum. The outcome specifically concludes that when there’s less competition among carriers, prices drop and thereby allow for more … Read more
George Tinari
Watch out, Google: Siri accounts for 25% of Wolfram Alpha’s traffic
About a quarter, or 25 percent, of all of Wolfram Alpha’s traffic now comes from Siri on the iPhone 4S, according to a report from the New York Times. The fact that Siri has had such a large impact on Wolfram Alpha in only a few months not only proves iPhone customers are actually using Siri, but how useful Wolfram Alpha’s technology is. It may also prove a long-term threat for Google, as technologies like Siri could become a disruptive platform that stands between users and search engines. I’ve always … Read more
George Tinari
Study: Women dig gadgets too
There’s a common stereotype that men are far more interested in the latest gadgets than women are. There’s perhaps no better example of this than Motorola’s marketing strategy for the Droid line of smartphones: keep it cool, badass and overly aggressive. A study entitled Women in CE from the Consumer Electronics Association, however, is finding that more and more women are expressing a fondness for technology than ever before. Eight in ten women now say they have an interest in consumer electronics and 41 percent of them indicated they were “very … Read more
George Tinari
Android, iPhone account for over 90 percent of smartphone sales
Google and Apple’s mobile operating systems continue to dominanate, as Android and iPhone accounted for over 90 percent of smartphone sales, according to the latest research from The NPD Group. The little green robot garnered 48 percent of the smartphone market during last quarter, while iOS handsets took in 43 percent. The study also shows that Android devices lead the iPhone when it comes to first-time smartphone buyers. In the study, Android trounced the wildly popular iOS phone by grabbing 57 percent of first-time buyers, while the iPhone reported only 34 percent … Read more
Charles West
Super Bowl: Mobile searches up during the game [Infographic]
The Big Game is over and New York Giants fans are probably still celebrating but Google is back to work, dropping some knowledge about what were the popular searches during the Super Bowl. There were a lot of searches about Madonna, Tom Brady and more but what really interests me is the shift to mobile once the game kicked off. Google said that 41 percent of people turned to their mobile devices during the game to look up information about Super Bowl commercials and that rose from 25 percent before … Read more
Marin Perez
More smartphones were shipped than PCs last year
Canalys research firm issued a report today that makes us all think back to our very first time getting a blue screen of death on a PC. According to combined statistics from 2011, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than computers in 2011 – 488 million smartphones hit shelves last year, while only 414.6 million PCs did. Though tablets were supposed to reign in the “post-PC” era, the PC numbers do factor in tablet shipments. “Smart phone shipments overtaking those of client PCs should be seen as a significant milestone,” VP and … Read more
George Tinari
Apple has 8.7% of the mobile phone market, 75% of the profits
Apple continues its dominance when it comes to the world of mobile devices. The Cupertino-based company’s iPhone share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 8.7 percent last quarter, according to Asymco‘s Horace Dediu. Even more impressive is that Apple’s profits in this space have risen from 39 percent to 75 percent. Wow. Of course, what’s great news for Apple is horrible news for other manufacturers, as Dediu’s chart of the eight largest OEMs above shows a vast difference in cash-flow. It turns … Read more
Charles West
Juniper Research: There will be 3 million mHealth remote monitoring users by 2016
According to the latest report by Juniper Research, a burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016. Using a smartphone as a hub, remote patient monitoring will also lower the cost of mHealth services by reducing the need for costly tailored devices. The report goes on suggesting that the monitoring of cardiac outpatients is currently leading the field, though in time the management of diabetes and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary … Read more