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The conventional wisdom says that smartphone, tablet and to some extent TV buyers are well informed, and that once they enter the store, they know what they want. That apparently is not the case with a significant percentage of US-based smartphone buyers changing their minds once in the store. According to recent research conducted by…
Consumers are migrating away from PC-based Internet usage and are increasingly using mobile devices as their default gateway to the Internet. According to IDC, the U.S. is leading this trend, with Western Europe and Japan only about two years behind. In the United States, the number of people accessing the Internet through PCs will shrink…
Opera Software published its Q3 State of Mobile Advertising report, sharing key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide. The Opera advertising platform — based on Opera’s subsidiaries AdMarvel, Mobile Theory and 4th Screen Advertising — serves more than 10,000 mobile sites and apps, with 40+ billion ad impressions per month and is on-track to…
Juniper Research estimates that the number of smartphone shipments exceeded 157 million in the third quarter, with Samsung increasing its lead in terms of unit shipments. During the period, the Korean company shipped a record 56.3 million smartphones, which is almost double than what Apple did (26.9 million). Samsung’s flagship device, the Galaxy S3, played…
The low-cost smartphones costing less than $150 present a strong growth opportunity for the mobile phone industry, according to the new NPD DisplaySearch Smartphones: Displays, Designs and Functionality report. These devices are forecast to double every year from 2010 to 2016, increasing from 4.5 to 311 million. As you would expect, 60% of the demand…
In its latest report, ABI Research is looking at prospects of NFC-based mobile payments, forecasting their rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. According to the research company, the convergence between payment types — proximity, P2P and online — stored on a single NFC…
In its latest report, Strategy Analytics says that the number of smartphones in use worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark for the first time ever in Q3 2012. The research company says that it took 16 years for the industry to reach this historic milestone, whereas it expects that the new billion will be reached…
The GSMA unveiled results of a global, multi-year study that examines not only the total number of mobile connections, but also the number of individual mobile subscribers, defined as the unique users subscribed to mobile services. Undertaken by the GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence team over three years and across 39 developed and developing markets, the research…
According to a new report by Juniper Research, new “Rich Communication Suite” (RCS) mobile messages will generate 83 billion messages per annum in five years’ time. However, the research company also notes that this will be less than 1% of total messaging traffic in 2017, with “older services” like SMS, and already-established IP services such…
Pretty much every smartphone users relies on his/her device to keep up with their buddies and latest news on social networks. As you would expect, iPhone (iOS) and Android users are leading this trend, but it’s interesting to look at their behaviors and see the differences. For instance, highest ranked social apps for Android are…