According to the new research by Taiwan-based Market Intelligence Center, more than half of all mobile phones sold worldwide in the second quarter of 2007 were made in China. However, the researches note it’s the GSM and not 3G-enabled phones that dominate the local industry’s output as we still wait to see Chinese government licensing…
Operators may face rivals from SIP service providers, handset makers
As mobile phone users get more savvy, we’ll see a dramatic increase in the usage of SIP VoIP services. According to Informa’s latest report, we should expect to see the number of SIP users approach 435 million by 2012. In addition, the telecom research company predicts that by the end of this year sales of…
Memory cards to become the single highest revenue-generating mobile phone accessory by the end of this year
Believe it or not, it’s the memory cards and not the headsets, cases or some other mobile phone accessory that will account for the most user purchases this year. According to ABI Research, revenue from memory card shipments is expected to be over $7 billion in 2007, compared with $5 billion expected from headset shipments…
Mobile gambling wagers to approach $12 billion within 3 years
This one’s actually not for our U.S. readers — at least not at the moment — but it’s important nevertheless. According to Juniper Research, thanks to the increasing deployment of multiple mobile payment technologies and liberalisation of remote gambling legislation in key markets, mobile gambling wagers will approach $12 billion by 2010. Of that amount,…
Apple iPhone bests Nokia N95, HTC Touch in usability study
So, there’s this Texas-based usability consulting firm called Perceptive Sciences. They just released the results of a test that put the Apple iPhone heads-up with the Nokia N95 and HTC Touch in a usability battle. The winner? Apple iPhone. The results are sure to rile up the iPhone-haters out there, but the results speak for…
India now has more than 200 million mobile phone users
See, it’s not just China who’s growing like crazy in terms of number of mobile phone users. As a matter of fact they may be the world’s fastest growing economy, but it’s India which at the moment gets more mobile phone users every month. After adding another eight million subscribers last month, Indian mobile phone…
Mobile TV generate more than $6.6 billion from almost 120 million users by 2012
We all know mobile TV will be a killer app — it just makes sense to entertain yourself while commuting (that’s in case you’re using a public transport and/or NOT driving). The latest report from Juniper Research goes in the same direction, suggesting that worldwide annual consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV services will exceed…
Users in the UK are biggest texters in Europe
Mobile phone users in the UK send more text messages than any other nation in Europe. According to the worldwide survey of 10,000 mobile phone owners by media agency Universal McCann, British mobile phone users send an average of 100 SMSes each month. Compared with them, Germans and Americans seem like small kids with 65…
Mobile data revenue to hit $1 Billion by 2012, number of users to increase by a factor of 6.5x
Internets in my pantaloons, I’ve been an addict for a while now and Juniper Research reckons that a lot of people will want to become one too. In 2007 there are only 40 million people out there using mobile data, that number is expected to his 260 million in just 5 years, 60 million in…
Numbers: China has more than 600 million mobile phone users
The Chinese bride pictured above is just one of more than 600 million mobile phone users in the “world’s fastest growing economy.” The latest figures from China are staggering — there are 40.56 million more mobile phone users than there were at the end of last year. This translates that Chinese mobile phone carriers added…