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A study conducted by Nielsen showed the top 20 Android apps by gender, and to nobody’s surprise Facebook, Google Maps and Gmail were the most used among U.S. owners 18 years and older (if you don’t count the Android Market app itself). In order for Nielsen to establish the “active reach” of each app, the…
Research company Kantar Worldpanel ComTec says that there are more than 3.6 million people in the UK with a tablet, representing 7.6% of the population — up from 2.8% in November 2010. Needless to say, Apple’s iPad accounts for almost three-quarters of tablet sales with the Samsung Galaxy Tab holding the distant second position with…
Android has nabbed second place in Europe as the most used operating system according to comScore, a company which performs research on the digital world. In the study released today, data from the comScore MobiLens service analysing growth trends of all smartphone platforms showed impressive year-to-year growth by Android. This study was done across the…
We’d all hoped that the iPhone 5 would be released this past summer, but since June blew right by without a successor to the iPhone 4, anticipation for it seems to be rocketing. However, it doesn’t seem to be hurting the current iPhone, as it is still the best-selling smartphone in the world–an astounding feat…
Mobile payments. We hear the phrase thrown around all the time, but what does it mean? Do you tap your phone on a sensor and magically pay for your coffee? Or do you attach some kind of doohickey to an iPad and have someone swipe a credit card through it? Or do you scan a…
The bean counters at IDC are predicting that by 2015, thanks to tablets, smartphones, and ubiquitous connectivity, unless you’re an AT&T customer that is, Americans will be using their mobile devices to access the internet more than what we’ve traditionally known as the “personal computer”. We say “personal computer”, because that term is going to…
It’s well-documented that the Samsung Galaxy S II is a beast of a phone, but thanks to this latest finding you should be even more impressed by its power. In a review conducted by AnandTech on the International Galaxy S II, the phone was found to be the most powerful Android device out. The site dedicated…
New numbers from the bean counters at IDC have been released and they show that finally, after the first smartphone, the Nokia 7650, was introduced in Q2 2002, the smartphone category has ended the reign of the dumbphone. The defeat wasn’t really a landslide, 21.8 million smartphones versus 20.4 million million dumbphones that shipped in…
MocoSpace released results from a new study on virtual goods purchases of Americans by ethnicity. Collected during June 2011 by looking at anonymous data of 40,000 mobile social gamers on the MocoSpace platform, the data and findings demonstrate that consumer markets vary in their spending habits within mobile social games. Here’s what they’ve found: Caucasians,…
Researchers at Rice University have figured out how to double mobile data transmission rates without the need to increase the number of cell towers that a network uses. To understand how they did it, you need to know how current mobile networks work. The mobile phones of today use two spectrum channels, think of a…