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To the 40% of you who use your smartphones in the bathroom — gross! Or is it? While it seems pretty disgusting to use your touchscreen device on the can – a surface that has already proven to be a Petri dish for viruses and bacteria that can cause illness – I never really understood…
How quickly the world changes. Nielsen said that a higher percentage of consumers prefer Android for their next smartphone over the Apple iPhone or Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. This is especially interesting because the iPhone reined supreme in Nielsen’s last survey in September of 2010 but things change. According to the latest figures, 31 percent…
Some folks become paranoid and worried about security when they learn that their smartphones might be recording their every move. Recently we learned that the iPhone and iPad 3G keeps track of its user’s whereabouts, and stores that information in a file within the device. That information is then transferred and backed up on a…
The increasing adoption of smartphones is helping push the mobile payment transaction volume. According to In-Stat, transactions are set to increase at a pace greater than the number of users, as individuals adopt mobile payment solutions for an increasing portion of their payments. Moreover, as users become more familiar with mobile payments, and as more…
Apple’s iPhone has been making headlines these past few days for all the wrong reasons. Apparently each and every iPhone in circulation keeps a log file of where you’ve been and at what time. This data has privacy advocates freaking out, but what if this data can be used for good? In an article from…
It’s been a few months since we’ve seen the release of the Windows Phone 7 platform and while total sales numbers are still a little vague (at least more than 2 million units since launch, we think), we still want to know how the handset makers are doing with this operating system. We don’t have…
You’ve probably noticed that a growing number of mobile phones sold today come with a built-in GPS receiver. As a matter of fact, all CDMA phones were GPS-enabled for quite some time now. However, when it comes to GSM/WCDMA handsets, according to Berg Insight – they grew at CAGR of 28.8%, increasing almost 97% in…
BuzzCity is out with its BuzzCity Report, a quarterly summary on the “trends and forces shaping mobile advertising.” According to the company, during the first quarter of 2011, the number of ads served on the BuzzCity Ad Network increased by 38% globally to 23.2 billion ad impressions, which is a record in both traffic and…
Although nobody was exactly camping out overnight to pick up a BlackBerry PlayBook yesterday, Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., claims 45,000 of RIM’s first tablet was sold on launch day through Best Buy and Staples alone, counting 25,000 preorders predominantly for 32 GB and 64 GB versions. Mike Abramsky, of RBC Captial…
The BlackBerry PlayBook was released to the public yesterday, and it’s already been fully disassembled for inspection by some hardware experts. A lot of the components have come from Texas Instruments (not just the processor). From a repairability standpoint, the PlayBook is easy enough to open, using standard screws, but replacing the battery requires you…