Screen Digest have released a report on the state of the 3G Mobile broadband market, which makes interesting reading. As many of you know, I’m a big fan of 3G mobile broadband, and think it’s been instrumental in providing good Mobile data access, plus bolstering Mobile Operators’ bottom lines! Here are some salient stats from…
Smartphone shipments continue to grow, despite dwindling cellphone sales
Smartphones are the new pink, or whatever color it is that’s “hot” these days. As if the iPhone’s “mass-marketization” of the smartphone wasn’t proof enough, new data from IDC confirms that smartphone shipments continue to grow while overall cellphone shipments continue to decline. Global cellphone shipments slipped 15.8%, making for just 244 million handsets shipped…
Strategy Analytics: 900% Growth in Android Smartphone Shipments for 2009
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… It’s going to be a big year for Android. Now I’ve even got some outside testimonies and research from the analysts at Strategy Analytics. The folks over there have commented that Android’s licensing model and ‘semi-open-source’ structure plays well in today’s tough economic climate. They also…
NTT DoCoMo promises ergonomic audio with new spatial audio technology
In the hip world of design, ergonomics is king. We see ergonomic design in computer mice made to fit your hand or chairs made to conform to your supple rump, but a new audio technology from NTT DoCoMo promises to bring ergonomic audio to the mobile space. NTT DoCoMo’s new “spatial audio transmission technology” allows…
Latest study finds 1 in 5 US homes are wireless only
As the world marches towards complete wireless saturation, the number of landlines continues to dwindle. The latest, most up-to-date study from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicates that more than 1-in-5 US households are wire-free. It seems that 20.2% of US homes shunned wireline service in favor of a wireless only lifestyle in the…
Study: Women More Likely to Use Cellphone on Toilet!
At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, it seems that the female gender’s penchant for conversation carries over to the bathroom as well. A new study finds that women are more likely to not just gossip to their girlfriends while touching up their lip gloss, women are actually more likely to use their cellphones while on…
Greystripe’s quarterly Consumer Insights Report reveals the life of an iPhone app
Greystripe — which used to be known for its network of ad-supported apps and games and is now the rich media mobile advertising network — is out with their quarterly Consumer Insights Report. From there we’ve picked a single item that’s of most interest to us – it’s the information on the average usage of…
Juniper Research: Mobile application revenues to reach $25 billion by 2014
Thanks to the app store frenzy, the total revenues from mobile applications are expected to exceed $25 billion by 2014. According to Juniper Research, even though the overwhelming majority of app revenues are currently accrued from one-off downloads, the increasing utilization of in-app billing will enable incremental revenues from additional mobile content and will see…
Mobile gaming on the up and up among AT&T customers
The iPhone has changed the way the mobile world looks at smartphones and their promise as handheld gaming devices. Touchscreens are the new hotness, and popularity of the iPhone’s multi-touch mobile games helped drive the AppStore to 1 billion downloads in less than a year. So, new research from Information Solutions Group and PopCap Games…
T-Mobile G1: We’re Number 5!
That’s right, the folks at HTC and Google can rejoice… The NPD Group released sales rankings (for Q1 2009) and the G1 ranks fifth on the list behind a sea of BlackBerry devices… and the iPhone. The Curve 83xx series was all the news the other day, having beat out the iPhone for this top…