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In a a recent survey of 700 Verizon smartphone owners by uSamp, 54% of those currently owning either a BlackBerry or an Android phone said they were at least “somewhat likely” to switch to an iPhone 4 next week. 25% were “very likely”. BlackBerry users were more likely to make the switch, with 66% claiming…
In a bit of news that doesn’t surprise me much, a new study from BillShrink finds that a quarter million U.S. users are paying too much for their wireless service because they miscalculate how much voice, data and text messages they use per month. The report found that people waste about $336 per year. Part…
Some research by Bernstein has revealed that Nokia has spent upwards of $3.9 billion on research and development, which is close to three times as much as the average spent by competing mobile manufacturers. Okay, sure, Nokia is still the biggest in the world (for the time being), so it’s not entirely surprising. Samsung was…
With more and more people using VoIP and social networking services from their mobile phones, In-Stat forecasts there will be nearly 139 million mobile VoIP users by 2014. Social networking services and a growing number of smartphone users will especially drive people to use such services, plus there’s the obvious benefit of saving money on…
The bean counters at ABI research are tabulating the total number of mobile connections all around the world, including broadband connections, meaning those who have 3G access, and predict that by the end of this year there are going to be over 1 billion people paying for high speed wireless. At the end of 2010…
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…