While Android 1.5 OS was the most used version across all devices that used the OS about two weeks ago, 2.1 has finally taken the crown. Although, that could all change in the near future, now that we’re expecting Android 2.2 OS in the next few days (it sure took them long enough). Android 2.1…
Super-Sleuthing Reveals webOS Firmware Carrier Delays
Here’s an interesting quickie for all of the Pre and Pixi users out there. If you’ve ever wondered how long the lag is between Palm submitting a firmware update to a carrier, and the actual firmware update going live, wonder no longer. Thanks to one Rod Whitby (founder of the webOS Internals Group), we can…
Apple moves ahead of Motorola in mobile phone marketshare
Well, Apple has done it again. In the first quarter of this year, Apple has managed to ship 8.75 million iPhones. This number gives them 4% of the total global mobile phone market. While Motorola fared quite well, shipping 8.5 million handsets last quarter, it was not good enough to keep up with the iPhone’s…
Symbian users love mobile ads – Symbian OS users 2.7 times more likely to click ads than iPhone OS users
If you’re a Symbian OS user, you’ll be happy to know that your smartphone operating system of choice has at least one leg-up on the iPhone OS. The Symbian smartphone platform sends 2.7 times the number of mobile advertising clicks as the iPhone OS! No other OS even comes close to the mobile ad click-through…
JiWire’s mobile audience insights report shows that ads in mobile apps work!
JiWire, the company that brings ads to/monetizes free hotspots is out with some interesting mobile ad numbers. The main point is that advertisements in mobile applications work, with over half of survey respondents saying they’ve acted on an in-app ad in the last 30 days, and 18% made a purchase as a result of it.…
If you’re still using your cellphone for voice calls, you’re behind the times
Are you still using that high-powered smartphone in your pocket more for making voice calls than for using data services like surfing the web, checking email, or keeping up with Facebook. With all the techno-wizardry that modern mobile phones allow, if you’re still relying on your handset to actually talk to other people, you’re likely…
65,000 Android handsets shipped everyday
We knew Android has been growing at a rapid pace, and typing that sentence is getting a little repetitive. Nonetheless, during a shareholders meeting held yesterday, Eric Schmidt announced that 65,000 Android handsets are shipped every single day day. While that’s quite a number, it’s not exactly what it seems. The keyword that should be…
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Most Popular Smartphone on NTT DoCoMo – Analyst
An analyst note from Barclay’s justified their upgrade of Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo’s stock by impressive performance of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Apparently DoCoMo sold 120,000 X10s since it launched in April, a number they couldn’t even come close to with the HTC Magic, which launched last summer and only hit 80,000. The BlackBerry…
Juniper Research: Mobile health monitoring services to save healthcare providers between $1.9 and $5.8 billion globally by 2014
According to Juniper Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Healthcare Opportunities, Monitoring Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014,” healthcare providers globally will be able to save between $1.96 billion and $5.83 billion in costs through the use of mobile patient monitoring by 2014. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. and Canadian markets will generate the most cost savings, due to…
1 in 4 households rely only on cellphones
A new study shows that households are moving away from traditional landlines for mobile phones. As cell phones become smarter and capable of more and more things, the need for a landline is declining. In the beginning of 2006, only 11% of households actually had cell phones. How times have changed. Today, only 15% of…