As part of a February 11-15 corporate IT pending survey (in the U.S.?), ChangeWave asked respondents involved with IT spending decisions in their organizations who the manufacturer was of the smartphones their company currently provides. Guess which company won? Yap, it’s the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which was favored by nearly three-in-four respondents (73%).…
Chalk another one up for the iPhone – Apple is now part of world’s Top 10 handset vendor
No, it’s not the Top 10 iPhone web-apps list that I put together yesterday – although, you should check it out (and leave a comment if you like/dislike any of the web-apps on the list). This time around, the iPhone has, like a hunting dog that runs into the field and returns with a dead…
Mobile users in the U.S. use mobile Internet services more than UK users
Recently, Bytemobile commissioned a research on mobile internet and consumer usability. According to the study results, contrary to popular belief, more mobile users in the U.S. are using mobile internet services on a daily basis than U.K. users — with 57% of participants reporting daily usage in the U.S. compared to 46% in the U.K.…
Informa: Online handset sales to triple in the five years to 2012
The results of new Informa’s survey indicate online mobile phone sales will surge to 21% of total devices sales by 2012. According to Angela Stainthorpe, Research Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, online retail for wireless is certainly only a nascent market but the tentative steps taken in 2007 will quickly become more confident. “As…
Nokia invests $1.55 million in Japanese image processing software company
Nokia Growth Partners, the VC’s internally who make sure Nokia is prepared for the future, have poured $1.55 million in Morpho, a Japanese company that specializes in using software to enhance both image and video capture in mobile phones. PhotoSolid is a solution that requires absolutely no new hardware, yet gives image stabilization as seen…
Another iPhone usability study – InUse says that iPhone is easy to use, most preferred
To beat this particular cat to death, research firm InUse has just published another iPhone usability report. The iPhone’s user-interface (which defines the user experience) is the most unique and arguably the most attractive on the market, but just how does it fare against the top competitors? Quite well, quite well indeed. InUse pitted the…
UK: OFT sends out fake scam text messages
The Office of Fair Trading has sent out thousands of fake scam (yes, think about that one) messages to people aged 18-24, to warn them of the dangers of (mobile) scams. The message was sent out on 15th Feb as part of “Scams Awareness Month”, and read: “Urgent! U may have won £1k cash with…
Report questions whether Mobile Gaming Industry advancing
A new report from M:Metrics says that although more people are playing mobile games, the amount downloading them has stayed the same. This apparently can be explained by the fact that more people are using to, and sticking with, the games that come preloaded on their handsets. The research also found that from UK, France,…
Apple iPhone generates 50 times more Google searches than any other mobile device
In yet another iPhone-validating statistic, Google announced at Mobile World Congress Barcelona that Google search traffic from iPhones was 50 times greater than search traffic from any other mobile device. We already knew that the iPhone sent a lot of traffic to Google, but this is just outrageous. It seems that iPhone users are addicted…
400,000 unlocked iPhones in China
No wonder Apple’s revenue sharing negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone didn’t go as planned. China Mobile itself is claiming that something like 400,000 unlocked iPhones are already in use on its network. With the iPhone black market doing as well as it is in China, Apple would be hard pressed to guarantee iPhone…