ABI Research expects application downloads to reach five billion by 2014, an increase from an estimated 2.3 billion applications downloaded this year. As expected, the rise will come from smartphone users, and already this year we saw the smartphone adoption growing 20%. Another factor for the rise in app downloads is the proliferation of application…
Study: iPhone Outranks Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Still King in North America
ComScore has released some survey stats on North American smartphone users gathered in October, revealing that BlackBerry still has the largest penetration, and that iPhone maintains second place and the strong lead over Windows Mobile it has had since 2007, according to other metrics. Here’s a quick rundown of the October numbers: BlackBerry: 14,963,238 users…
Pew Research: Out of 800 teens interviewed, only 4% admitted to sexting [LIARS]
Pew Research conducted a survey of 800 teenagers between the ages of 12 to 17 with a parent of guardian in the room about sexting, and of those only 4% admitted to sending nude pictures of themselves, while 15% said they’ve received naked images of other teens. The older a teenager gets, the more likely…
Facebook more popular than text messaging, but more people use text messaging than Facebook
A smallish (hence questionable) survey of 300 consumers in Boston, U.S. by PR agency Prompt Communications found that phone calls remain the most common (99%) method of communication. With 96% score, Facebook is now the next most popular communication tool, followed by SMS (93%) and email (91%). However, when people were asked which method they…
Android Market Hits 20,000 Apps
According to the latest number-crunching by AndroidLib, the public Android Market has hit the 20,000-app mark. The majority (62.3%) are free, but don’t think that it means they’re poor – au contraire, mon frère, 44.6% of apps enjoyed a 5/5 star rating. At last count, Apple had 100,000 apps, but they did have a bit…
Analyst: Gartner: Mobile phone unit sales in 2009 to fall less than 1% short of 2008 figures
This time last year the mobile telecom giants were predicting a 10% drop in volumes for 2009 citing the dreadful economy. During Nokia’s Q3 2009 financial earnings call, held on October 15, the company said they expected “industry mobile device volumes to be approximately 1.12 billion units in 2009, down approximately 7% from approximately 1.21…
Mobile technology could address the needs of parents of children with diabetes
According to a recent study conducted by the Center for Connected Health, parents of children with diabetes dig the idea of using a mobile phone to collect and transmit the child’s blood sugar readings to a doctor, to help manage their child’s diabetes. Here’s the recap of the findings (from the press release): 69.3% of…
ABI Research: Half of US mobile phone users interested in femtocells?
File this under “hard to believe,” as I doubt the majority of mobile phone users even know what femtocells are. Sure, we all want the improved coverage, but buying a femtocell base station is completely another thing. Coverage issue is a thing that carrier should solve, not to trick us into buying an additional piece…
42% of Feature Phone Users Willing to Pay for Apps
Mobile applications tend to be shoehorned into the smartphone category, since they have the horsepower of a mini-computer to handle a variety of demands, but that doesn’t mean folks with feature phones want to sit idly by while their high-rolling buddies get all the fun. In fact, a study by Samsung has shown that 42%…
Juniper Research: More than 300 million people will use mobile coupons by 2014
According to Juniper Research’s new report on mobile coupons, more than 300 million people will use mobile coupons by 2014, principally in developed markets. Both consumers and advertisers benefit from mobile coupons – consumers get a service which directly saves them money, whereas marketers take advantage of location features build inside many of the services.…