Apple has the uncanny ability to resist economic downturns surprisingly well, and the latest survey from Piper Jaffray proves that even the teenage demographic is following that trend. In the face of dour economic conditions, teenage iPhone marketshare is on the rise. The “Taking Stock with Teens” survey shows that eight percent of teens are…
Survey Sez: LBS Developers Not Interested in WebOS, Symbian
According to recent research by Skyhook Wireless (the guys who work on Wi-Fi positioning systems), only 8% of location-based service developers will jump to the Palm Pre operating system, WebOS. The survey was conducted over 100 developers spread across six platforms: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Java and iPhone. Here are the main findings from…
HTC Going Dumb?
A recent report by Commercial Times out of China is claiming that smartphone manufacturer extraordinaire, HTC, will be turning things down a notch come Q4, and launch some standard feature (dumb) phones. HTC is renown for building Windows Mobile smartphones, but such a diversifying shift makes sense in a rocky economy. HTC’s forthcoming feature phone…
Vibration to Facilitate Touchscreen Braille Reading
By translating characters into Morse-code style vibrations on a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, researchers at the Finnish University of Tampere were able to allow the blind to read Braille on a touchscreen. Sharp pulses would indicate a full indentation, while low, long ones would indicate blanks. “It took some time for them to start reading,…
Latest AdMob Mobile Metrics Report Out… Interesting As Usual
In case you missed it, AdMob has recently published their latest mobile metrics report for your viewing pleasure. It’s always a good read if you’re interested in anything mobile, especially manufacturers, OS’s, trends, and more. Below are some key points from this new report: For this month’s feature, we revisit the top smartphones in our…
Americans sent 1 trillion SMS text messages in 2008!
The text messaging boom has hit the US with force. And, the prevalence of messaging handsets launched at CTIA Wireless 2009 is a sign of the times. So, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that American sent a record number of SMS text messages in 2008 – but we just can’t help being impressed.…
Motorola’s Sanjay Jha Was 2008’s Top-Paid Exec
We already knew Sanja Jha, Motorola’s relatively recently-appointed CEO of handsets, made $104.4 million last year, composed predominantly of stocks, but according to recent research it turns out that his paycheck tops the heap of publicly-traded companies in America. Of course that might change in 2009, as he has voluntarily taken a 25% pay hit,…
Samsung, LG To Have a Strong Showing in US Market This Year
South Korean device manufacturers are set to take a huge chunk of the US market in 2009. This new information comes from Taiwanese market sources via DigiTimes: “Samsung and LGE have continued to increase their penetration in the US handset market since 2008, and the two companies are expected to grab the top and second…
Juniper Research: LTE mobile broadband to generate $70 billion in revenues within 5 years!
LTE, the official 4G technology, is slated to generate more than $70 billion in mobile broadband revenues globally by 2013, according to Juniper Research. The research company argues — and I fully agree — that various hardware makers will release tons of new devices that will rely on the new technology to connect to the…
Mobile Apps are going to grow by 4x in 5 yrs, says report
Information Week is reporting on some research by In-stat, that says the number of mobile application store users will grow by 4x to more than 100mn, within just 5 years! In-stat’s report is called “The Apps Store Is Born” – and clearly informed heavily by Apple’s App Store – which has seen 800mn+ downloads in…