How full is your mobile phone’s battery? Do you have voice or text messages awaiting your reply? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just pick up your phone and give it a quick shake to get an idea for just how “full” your phone is. In much the same way that you’d shake that…
Ypulse: Teens and young adults send more SMS than any other demographics
It’s kinda obvious that teens and young adults are texting more than any other demographic. We just didn’t knew how much more they do that… According to Ypulse, people ages 13-24 send more than 50 messages per week. In contrast, half of all survey respondents use text messaging at least once a week. Furthermore, Ypulse’s…
Juniper Research: Mobile adult content market to approach $3.5 billion by 2010
Well folks, it’s the increasing adoption of streamed video and video chat services alongside the rise of 3G networks, we should thank to for pushing the mobile adult content market to nearly $3.5 billion by 2010 (this is NOT to say that IntoMobile has anything to do with the industry). According to Juniper Research, while…
Only 12-13 percent of U.S. mobile users surf the Web on their phones
Apparently, mobile phone users in the U.S. aren’t that eager to browse the Web from their mobile phones. According to Rethink Research, mobile web accounts for 12% of ARPU in 2007, far bellow the expected 50 percent. On the the other hand, Yankee Group argues only 13% of mobile phone users in North America use…
Windows Mobile – it’s a man’s world
Not to come off too chauvinistic, but it would appear that it’s a man’s world afterall – at least as far as Windows Mobile is concerned. A study conducted by Microsoft found that only 14.6% of the Windows Mobile users are women, 85.4% of users being of the male persuasion. Could it be Microsoft’s (Windows…
America gets a clue, smartphone sales grow 165% in Q3 2007
America, land of the free phone with a 2 year contract that does nothing but voice and SMS and according to the latest figures that is changing. Over 10% of phone sales in Q3 2007 were due to smartphones, 165% more than this time last year. Another figure that is sure to make your head…
Nokia files patent for side-sliding mobile phone with QWERTY keyboard
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We stumbled across this patent application, from none other than Nokia, that outlines a method to incorporate a “turn and slide” display that tilts upward to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. Now, there have been numerous sliding-screen designs in an effort to combine…
3G handset sales in US pass 50% mark
Even with the half-assed 3G environment that is the US wireless landscape, sales of US handsets have reached a milestone – the majority of handsets sold in the US in Q3 2007 featured 3G radios. Data from Strategy Analytics indicates that mobile phones equipped with the high-speed wireless data technology accounted for 55% of all…
J.D. Power ranks Sony Ericsson highest in Customer Satisfaction
With all their proprietary formats and hardware, we wouldn’t have thought that the Sony Ericsson experience would be at the top of the list. But, we would be wrong. J.D. Power has just named Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications as the US and Canadian leader in overall customer satisfaction in terms of handsets. The J.D. Power…
Juniper Research: Mobile casino wagers to hit $5bn by 2012
According to the Juniper Research’s latest report, the growth in usage levels of both single-user games such as slot machines and of multiplayer gambling tournaments will help drive the total annual wager on mobile casino services to more than $5bn by 2012. Apparently, in the coming years mobile gambling services should thank to such factors…