Technology is great, ain’t it? Right, all that self-absorbed mobile communication and music connoisseur-ing couldn’t possibly have any real-world social implications. Oh wait, it turns out that the 84% penetration in the mobile phone market is helping to make people more averse to social interactions. Some people would call his being “shy.” Harvard researcher Robin…
Apple iPhone sales eclipse all other smartphones in July!
Sealed battery? Closed operating system? No physical keyboard? Slow data / No 3G? Say what? Despite all the iPhone’s negative attributes (and in spite of all the iPhone’s detractors), Apple has just outsold all other smartphone in the month of July. According to a study from iSuppli, the Apple iPhone’s first full month of sales…
Mobile penetration to break 100% by 2013
While the European Union can already boast of having more mobile phones in their country than actual human beings (their mobile penetration was recently pegged at 103%), the US is lagging pretty far behind. Still, for the behind-the-times US wireless market, hitting 84% market penetration by year-end and 100% penetration by 2013 is quite a…
Third of all UK calls are made from mobiles
Are British people addicted to their mobile phones or what? According to the report from UK phone regulator Ofcom, mobile phone calls now account for more than a third of all time spent on the phone. Last year mobiles accounted for 82 billion minutes, out of an overall total of 234 billion. In addition, starting…
Mobile video telephony and messaging services to exceed $17 billion by 2012
Naturally, there’s a reason why carriers around the world are increasing their video messaging and telephony services. According to the new study from ABI Research, this market will grow from $1 billion this year to over $17 billion by 2012! The problem is that not all people will be able to afford the access to…
Mobile ads keep annoying users
Not surprisingly, mobile phone users remain annoyed with mobile advertising. Universal McCann conducted a survey among 9,500 people in 21 countries and have found that about 61% of respondents rejected ads on mobile TV and Internet services. For those who are open to mobile ads, the survey discovers that opt-in Bluetooth is the most effective…
More sub-$50 handsets coming next year
More than a dozen handset vendors will be shipping sub-$50 models till the end of the next year. Furthermore by 2011, almost 25% of all handsets shipped globally will be an ultra low cost handset. And we’re talking about smartphones… 🙂
BlackBerry still rules enterprises
The latest report from the market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey suggests that BlackBerry is still the most preferred device among the enterprise customers. The survey collected responses from hundreds of IT decision-makers at enterprises with more than thousand employees, and have additionally found that RIM and its competitors haven’t been particularly successful at pushing…
Users find typing on the iPhone slow?
Chicago-based usability consultancy User Centric tested the iPhone’s touch keyboard comparing it with conventional QWERTY and numeric phone keyboards. The test involved 20 frequent texters who send at least 15 messages per week, with 10 of them owning the phone with full QWERTY keyboard. Unsurprisingly, QWERTY keyboard equipped handset owners have found typing on the…
Mobile social networking in June
Yesterday, we talked about Juniper Research’s report on how mobile social networking is set for explosive growth. Now, we have more numbers from M:Metrics, which is reporting that 12.3 million consumers have accessed a social network via their mobile phones during June. Of that number, 7.5 million mobile subscribers are coming from the US, 1.3…