According to latest Informa’s research, Android-powered smartphone sales will surpass iPhone sales by 2012. Before you iPhone fans out there start jumping off, let me add that so far we’ve only seen two Android smartphones confirmed for release, both made by HTC – HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1) and HTC Magic. That, however, is just…
ABI Research: 148 million mobile data roaming subscribers this year
While the idea of mobile data roaming is not new, demand is clearly taking off, driven by the broadening rollout of 3G networks. Carriers are still experimenting with pricing, and many are leaning towards the same kind of package deals so popular with voice services — a fixed price bundle rather than pricing by per…
Juniper Research: Mobile gambling wagers to approach $5 billion this year
Global mobile wagers are expected to approach $5 billion this year, fueled by acceleration in the deployment of on-portal mobile gambling services and higher-profile activity in the mobile channel from leading casinos and betting firms. Juniper’s latest report on mobile gambling found that UI improvements had already led to a surge in the volume of…
AdMob Monthly Mobile Metrics Report: iPhone Strong, Android Has 3% of OS Share in US
AdMob has released their monthly Mobile Metrics Report. It’s always an interesting read… You can pick it up right here. So what does AdMob do and how do they do it? I’ll let the folks at AdMob describe it best: AdMob stores and analyzes data from every ad request, impression, and click and uses this…
Global cellphone penetration reaches new milestone – 60% of globe now mobile
The world is changing. And, fueled by spectacular growth in the mobile space, the world is changing faster than ever. At the turn of the millennium, around the year 2002, only 15% of the globe was wirelessly connected. A new United Nations report shows just how far we’ve come – a whopping 60% of the…
Juniper Research on mobile entertainment growth: Recession could cause the market to decline to 7% in worst case scenario
A new report from Juniper Research warns that the ongoing global recession could significantly cause the mobile entertainment market to decline. Juniper’s best case scenario estimates that the market will reach nearly $36 billion in 2010, while the worst case could see the market declining to 7% growth per year. Using a scenario-based approach to…
Cellphone Sales Down Worldwide, Smartphone Sales Up in U.S.
So how hard has the economic crisis hit the mobile industry on the whole? We’ve seen Sprint, Motorola, and plenty of others hurting over the last couple of months, but the overall effect worldwide hasn’t been measured – that is, before Gartner tallied up the 314.7 million handsets sold in Q4 ’08, down 4.6% from…
iPhone blows away competition with 66% of all mobile web traffic!
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…
Sidekick Tops Stolen Phones
The T-Mobile Sidekick has topped Boston’s list of stolen gadgets, accounting for 14% of all robberies in the area – more than 300 cases in 2008 alone. While it’s not surprising that the Sidekick is a popular target, most steal-worthy toys are top sellers, like the iPhone; the Sidekick, however, has never broken the top…
ABI Research: Mobile Internet search engine use jumped 14% between 2007 and 2008
According to surveys conducted by ABI Research in 2007 and 2008, 70% of respondents used their mobile phones to access information through Internet search engines last year, representing a substantial 14% increase over 2007. Some types of content accessed via mobile phones rose in popularity from 2007 to 2008 — including news, game downloads, music…