Latest Telephia’s Premium SMS Report provides a detailed look at the US market for off-portal content purchased via premium SMS from off-portal storefronts as well as premium text messaging services, like voting/sweepstakes and chat. According to the mobile consumer research firm, premium SMS revenues totaled more than $273 million, making up 32% of mobile content…
Poor UIs cost carriers $100 millions a year
Last month we posted how mobile content discovery on U.S. carriers is everything but a seamless process in the eyes of consumers. Now, the same market research firm Strategy Analytics went one step further to quantify its findings. According to them, U.S. carriers are loosing more than $100 million in annual gaming revenues as a…
China expects to make more than half a billion handsets this year
More numbers from China. Last time we’ve talked about mobile phone users in the world’s fastest growing economy. Today we’re presenting you with the production numbers. According to information released by China’s Ministry of Information Industry, mobile phone production in the country is expected to grow nearly 17%, to reach 560 million units in 2007.
US mobile application sales to reach $9.0 billion by 2011
A new research from Compass Intelligence indicates that businesses in the US will spend $3.8 billion on mobile applications this year, while that number is expected to reach $9.0 billion by 2011. To improve productivity and collaboration across businesses, business will be spend on mobile and wireless-based custom-coded and packaged applications, including productivity, ERP, e-mail,…
J.D. Power and Associates: Handset customers are keeping their mobile phones longer
According to J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study, the average reported length of time a customer owns their cell phone has increased by 5% to 17.5 months, an increase from 16.6 months since fall 2006. The study also finds that thanks to the carriers’ incentives, the cell phone price has…
WiMAX Subscriptions Jump 85% in 2007
It looks like WiMAX is hotter than ever these days. Sprint and Nokia are probably grinning from ear to ear with this latest study. Research firm Maravedis has revealed, among other things, that WiMAX deployments around the globe have risen a whopping 85% – in the firm’s own newsletter, the WiMAXCounts Newsletter. However, the technologies…
Nokia and Tsinghua University working together in new Research Center
The world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, has joined forces with China’s Beijing-based Tsinghua University for a new research center. This partnership is the first Nokia Research Center venture for Nokia in the Asian continent – Nokia has already setup research facilities in the US, Finland and UK. Students at the Tsinghua University will be…
Beatnik announces new audio format for Mobile Phones – 10 times smaller than MP3!!
Beatnik has announced that they have developed a new audio format geared specifically for mobile devices. The company, fittingly founded by Thomas Dolby, claims that their new format can compress audio files ten times smaller than the popular MP3 format. To make good on their claim, the format includes just one copy of a repeated…
Mobile phone accessories to generate more revenue than the smartphones in 2007
The market for mobile phone accessories is booming. According to ABI Research, it will generate over $32 billion in revenues this year, $4 billion more than what is expected from the smartphone market. Around 77% of these revenues will come from the sales of “after-market” mobile phone accessories and the remaining from “in-box” accessories shipments.…
New SMPD Photo Detector makes flash obsolete! Cameraphones to benefit!
Korea’s government laboratory, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, has developed what they call a Single-carrier Modulation Photo Detector (SMPD) chip that can work in extremely low-light conditions. The new technology basically obsoletes the need for flash photography, especially on mobile phones. The new chip can collect enough picture data from 1 lux (1 candle’s worth of…