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In a survey cross-referencing smartphone use with ethnicity, Nielsen found that Hispanics and Asians were the most likely to own a smartphone (45% each), followed by African-Americans (33%) and finally Caucasians (27%). In terms of those recently buying handsets, Asians have been buying the most of the last six months (60%), then Hispanics (56%), African…
While BlackBerry may be quickly losing ground to the competition here in North America (and worldwide, for that matter), they’re still doing fine in the UK, according to a recent study by GfK Group. RIM’s lineup beat out Apple’s by claiming 28.2% of UK smartphone sales for 2010, which includes moving 500,000 units over the…
A recent study by ChangeWave examined trends in mobile operating system preferences, and showed that 5% of respondents would prefer to buy a Windows Phone, versus 4% who wanted a BlackBerry. Of course, the difference between the two is negligible when the iPhone OS and Android took up 36% and 35% respectively, but it does…
The latest phone shipment numbers are out from IDC and you have a few familiar faces at the top but the rise of ZTE and the lack of Motorola and Research In Motion from the top five gives us some interesting fodder to talk about. The IDC report said Nokia is still the dominant phone…
Opera and YouGov recently released the results of their survey regarding popular perceptions of online security and privacy. Compiling data from over a thousand respondents in each of the U.S., Japan, and Russia, it was concluded that having internet privacy violated to the point of fraud was a bigger daily worry than losing a job…
The bean counters over at Strategy Analytics have some new wisdom to share with the world now that most everyone has posted their Q4 2010 financial results. In terms of smartphones, 94 million of them shipped in the three months between October and December of last year. That’s an astonishing 75% increase compared with the…
Location-based service provider Telmap launched its first Metrics Report to look at local search, mapping and navigation usage and activity conducted through Telmap based solutions. This first report summarizes Q4 2010, revealing such things as: During the period users relied on Telmap’s navigation in more than 100 countries, through more than 400 million kilometers. To…
Buoyed by the success of the Apple App Store, Gartner predicts that the worldwide app store revenue forecast for 2011 will surpass $15 billion. That’s a major increase from 2010, where revenues were expected to total about $5.2 billion. “Many are wondering if the app frenzy we have been witnessing is just a fashion, and,…
It doesn’t exactly take a genius to figue this out, but the analysts at In-Stat are predicting that over half the mobile phones that will ship in the US in 2012 will be smartphones. Most of them will run Google’s Android operating system, which again, isn’t a surprise since there are multiple Android powered handsets…
A new report from Appcelerator and IDC suggest that app developers are still eying Apple iOS first but Android and tablets are becoming an increasingly important part of the equation. Thanks to the introduction of devices like the Motorola Xoom and tablets like the G Slate, developer interest in Android tablets have jumped 12 points…