You know how smartphones and app stores are gaining momentum these days. Well, according to the new analysis from Frost & Sullivan titled “An Insight into the U.S. Smartphone Application Storefront Market,” smartphone downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion in 2014! This is a total number of all apps for all platforms…
iSuppli: Thanks to so called iPhone killers there’s business for display makers
According to iSuppli, display makers should thank Apple and their competitors who try to make the so called “iPhone killers” for having a business (and even growth) in the time of recession. The research company says that worldwide shipments of mobile-phone LCD displays between 2.5-inches and 4.9-inches are projected to rise to 149.9 million units…
How seriously do some people take Twitter?!
I’ve posted before about the writings of Dr. Jim Taylor, who covers the area of ‘Psychology of UI’ – given there’s a huge crossover in to Mobile, his work is of real interest to me, and that’s the case again on his latest communication to me. He has written a blog post on Computerworld.com, talking…
Pyramid Research: Mobile gaming to reach $18 billion by 2014
The global mobile gaming market will grow at 16% CAGR to reach $18 billion in 2014. According to Pyramid Research’s latest report titled “Mobile Gaming in Emerging Markets: Five Year Forecast and Impact Analysis,” it’s the mobile users in emerging markets that will be the main engine of this growth. Manager of mobile content at…
Survey: 99% of iPhone 3GS owners happy, despite AT&T’s network
Does your phone leave you happy? More importantly, does it leave you satisfied? It doesn’t matter what kind of glitzy marketing campaign is behind your phone. It doesn’t matter if your phone can wash the dishes for you. What matters is that you, the consumer, are happy with your mobile phone. And, when it comes…
Smartphone segment keeps growing, but not for Windows Mobile or Symbian
The smartphone market is still seeing solid growth, despite a weak global economy that has consumers cutting back on non-essential goods. Gartner is reporting that Global sales of smartphones in the second quarter of 2009 increased 27% year-on-year, accounting for more than 40 million units sold. Meanwhile, mobile phone sales in general slid 6.1%, compared…
UK: Estimate of Number of 3G Mobile Internet Users
3G.co.uk lets us know about a new report that tries to estimate the number of UK users – and comes in somewhere around 7 to 17 million… The report is called (perhaps unsurprisingly) “UK Mobile Internet“, and reviews key factors causing the growth in usage – advertising is one driver that is picked up on…
T-Mobile Ranks Tops in Wireless Customer Care by J.D. Power and Associates
Who’s the best carrier in your opinion when it comes to customer care? Verizon? Sprint? AT&T? T-Mo? Alltel? Well, all of the above carriers were put to the test in the latest rankings released by J.D. Power and Associates…. and the results are in. T-Mobile lead the pack (in a tie with Verizon) for ‘Overall…
ABI Research: In terms of mobile data traffic, a month in 2014 will be more than whole 2008
A new study by ABI Research says that in 2014, the volume of mobile data sent and received every month by users around the world will exceed by a significant amount the total data traffic for all of 2008. And here are some other findings: Global mobile data traffic surpassed 1.3 Exabytes transferred during 2008.…
Palm Pre phones home with user location data
Palm Pre users, take note, your shiny new smartphone is spying on you… kinda. Palm is collecting all kinds of user behavior data from their US fleet of Palm Pre smartphones. How’s that, you ask? Well, there’s apparently a bit of code hidden within the Pre’s WebOS that instructs the handset to send Palm information…