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We’ve seen the latest reports from Canalys and comScore and both show just how well the Android operating system is doing these days (pretty well) and Gartner’s latest report shows much of the same. If you had any question as to why Google’s mobile operating system has been under fire so much recently, one only…
TeleNav commissioned a small study that as far as we can tell has nothing to do with the company’s main business – mobile navigation. Rather, they seemed to crave for some media love and they succeeded, as I’m sure you can tell. The survey asked people just how much they love their smartphones and unsurprisingly…
According to a report by the British telecoms regulator Ofcom, one in three adults in the UK now uses a smartphone. The iPhone is said to be the single most popular device with 32% of adults picking Apple’s handset as their favorite. Teenagers on their end favor RIM’s Blackberrys, which were identified as the preferred…
There’s some interesting data coming out of the latest Jumptap report, as the mobile advertising company has come up with some neat data about the advertising rates on Android, iOS and others. In particular, it’s fun to see which states tend to trend more toward Android or the iPhone. Of course, this data isn’t a…
Technology still amazes me even though I’m immersed in it every day. It’s stuff like extraordinarily tiny glass lenses that can turn mobile phones into projectors that make me saw, “Sweeeet.” And just looking at the image above, I’m confident that you readers will think the same. Look at it, it’s small like a granule…
There used to be a time when you had to know what bands your operator was using in order to make sure that the mobile phone you were purchasing would connect to the network. These days almost every smartphone, and many feature phones, have quadband GSM/EDGE so you’ll be able to get call, texts, and…
Piper Jaffray recently wrapped up some research on smartphone adoption, revealing that 67% of BlackBerry owners were going to switch to an iPhone next, with only 26% sticking with RIM. By contrast, 94% of iPhone owners were going to get an Apple handset again, while 42% of Android owners would be continuing with the OS…
Mobile application market keeps growing with the day. However, while the market is flooded, there is also significant pricing pressure as well as a shift toward free applications which will necessitate new revenue models. Despite all potential hurdles, In-Stat is forecasting that mobile application download revenues will surpass $29 billion in 2015. According to senior…
Mobile operators in the BRIC countries — which include Brazil, Russia, India and China — are accounting for a rapidly growing share of global mobile revenues, and are on track to overtake the U.S. in market size (revenue) by 2012. According to a new Wireless Intelligence study, The Global Cellular Industry Balance Sheet, BRIC operators…
The latest Nielsen numbers are out for the U.S. and it said that Android is the top platform but Apple is still the largest individual handset maker. We’ve all been witnesses to the rise of Android for the last couple years and Nielsen said that Google’s mobile platform now has 39 percent of the U.S.…