MobiAD News are summarising a report from Berg Insight, the well-known telecoms analyst firm, on five predictions for Mobile Advertising. I’ve just shown a couple below that I believe have real impact, but for the full five you’ll need to go to MobiAD News. For more detailed info, I recommend you visit Berg Insight’s corporate…
ABI Research: Mobile messaging services set for growth despite tough economic times
Despite the fact that the global economy is slowing down, mobile messaging growth will continue. According to data from ABI Research’s recent report, mobile messaging services revenues will grow from $151 billion in 2008 to greater than $212 billion globally by 2013. Mobile messaging ARPUs are 85%+ of all handset data services revenues regardless of…
Juniper Research: Promotional coupons sent via mobile phones to exceed 200 million users by 2013
According to a new Juniper Research’s study, coupons delivered and redeemed via mobile phones are forecast to be used by some 200 million mobile subscribers globally by 2013. At the moment, mobile coupons market is most advanced in Japan and Korea, but USA and Europe are slowly catching up and mobile coupons have started appearing…
China: Smartphone sales expand over 12% on year in September
It’s good to see that smartphones are steadily gaining momentum in China. To put this into numbers, volume sales of smartphones in the world’s fastest growing economy grew 12.2% on year to reach 2.53 million units in September 2008. According to CCID Consulting, Nokia, Motorola and Dopod China benefited the most out of this trend.…
iSuppli: T-Mobile G1 costs $144 to manufacturer (BOM)
It’s almost a right of passage that a new smartphone get broken down to its individual hardware components and analyzed for manufacturing costs, known as the BOM (Bill Of Materials). The T-Mobile G1 has already been dissected for all to see, so it was only a matter of time before the G1’s BOM was made…
ABI Research: 82 million location-based mobile social networking users by 2013
According to ABI Research, mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. The research company argues that while many LBS applications will include features allowing the…
iPhone trounces BlackBerry, Treo in reliability
Man, not only is the iPhone beating BlackBerry in sales and customer satisfaction, but the latest study from SquareTrade is showing that BlackBerrys malfunction about twice as much as an iPhone. Ouch. The survey gathered results from 15,000 handsets over the course of a year, which showed that 11.2% of BlackBerrys covered under SquareTrade’s warranties…
Apple Takes 2nd in Smartphone Market Share, But Q4 Looking Good for RIM
You may remember Will’s post from friday on Apple leapfrogging RIM in market share according to recent studies. I’ve been reading a bit about that lately and simply wanted to provide my take on it, plus add a lovely chart for you all to see where the numbers are at. As you can see in…
Canalys: Apple outpaced RIM in smartphone market share
For all you Apple naysayers that just didn’t believe Apple’s claim that their iPhone 3G sales were enough to make Apple the second-largest smartphone vendor (by sales) in the world, a new report confirms Cupertino’s assertion. Apple recently announced that their Q3 2008 sales figures for the iPhone 3G surpassed those of RIM’s BlackBerry lineup,…
Compass Intelligence: 7.2% of all mobile users use mobile banking
According to the recent web-based survey of 20,000 consumers and business decision-makers conducted by Compass Intelligence, an estimated 7.2% of mobile phone users that are 18 or older and employed use mobile banking. “The growth in smartphone adoption is expected to be a leading factor in the future adoption of mobile banking,” states Stephanie Atkinson,…