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When Google announced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in October of last year we were taken aback by their decision to equip it with a 4.65 inch display. Then last month at Mobile World Congress we saw HTC announce the 4.7 inch One X and LG announce the 4.7 inch Optimus 4X HD. This is…
An increasing number of car makers have started integrating smartphones into their in-car infotainment systems. As a matter of fact, this feature will become all but standard on new models, according to a new report by Juniper Research. The company forecasts that 92 million vehicles will feature technology to integrate the smartphone into the head-unit…
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is forecasting that Apple will sell over one million new iPads this Friday when it goes on sale for the first time. Munster has been fairly on target with Apple predictions in the past compared to other analysts. There’s no reason to not believe that figure. Shipment dates for the new…
NFC-based contactless payments have been around for the last couple of years but are still waiting to reach the tipping point. According to the latest report by Juniper Research, these transactions will reach $74 billion by 2015, with folks using the technology to pay for goods in-store and as transport tickets. Furthermore, the research company…
Everyone’s talking about mobile payments these days. Google has its own scheme, mobile carriers their own (Isis Mobile in the U.S.), while big retailers are also teaming-up to get involved in this hot-paced action. And while there’s still no single model that’s been adopted by the entire market, things are moving forward. Some companies offer…
Shopkick, the location-based shopping applications that offers up rewards just by having its app installed and walking into a store tried a little experiment late last February, which they called Black Friday 2. What’s that, you ask? Read on to find out. The Black Friday 2 experiment, which took place on February 24th of this…
Global internet usage through mobile devices, excluding tablets, is doubling every year. According to StatCounter, as of January 2012, the mobile Internet access accounted for 8.5%, which is up from 4.3% a year before. Moreover, in January 2010, the figure was at 1.6%, which again is more than double than in 2009 – 0.7%. StatCounter’s…
In its new report titled “Mobile TV: Applications, Devices and Opportunities 2012-2016,” Juniper Research talks about mobile TV usage. According to the research company, growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. As users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets,…
Pew asked 2,253 adults about their mobile phone in a survey conducted last month, and the results suggest that smartphones have finally overtaken dumb phones in the US. The survey shows that 45 percent of cell owners say their phone is a smartphone, and 49 percent of cell owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform.…
In its latest Digital Consumer Report, Nielsen talks about users’ responsiveness toward ads. The research has found that tablet and smartphone owners in Germany, Italy and the UK are more likely than Americans to make a purchase online via PC after viewing an ad on their tablet or smartphone. Of all nations surveyed, Italian device…