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New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) commissioned a survey [PDF file] of 1,008 Americans during the second week of October and found that an estimated 24.6 million consumers, or 1 in 5 people who currently have a mobile phone on some sort of 1 or 2 year contract, are either planning to or considering switching to…
Highly regarded analyst firm Gartner has issued their Q3 2010 smartphone figures and the results shouldn’t really come as a shock to anyone. The smartphone category, pioneered by Palm, perfected by Apple, and made available to all social classes by Nokia, is on the up and up with over 80 million shipping during the third…
A recent study done by the American Public Health Association on 4,257 students in an urban Midwestern school district shows that those who spend more time interacting with their friends via text messages or social networks are more likely to have problems with alcohol and drugs. The exact terms used are “hypertexters”, those who go…
A rather interesting study on voice over IP usage by Harris Interactive has revealed that men are more likely to use VoIP mobile apps for international calling than women. 31% of male (versus 19% female) respondents said they were more likely to make calls through computer software, and 10% (vs. 2%) said they’d make the…
Juniper Research’s new study estimates that operator revenues from non-voice services will go from $56 billion this year to $96.7 billion by 2015. Unsurprisingly, carriers have consumer adoption of data-hungry devices such as smartphones and tablets to thank for this surge in demand. However, the report forecasts that despite this rise growth in total operator…
A new report from comscore said Research In Motion and Samsung are tops in the United States in terms of smartphones and phones. RIM BlackBerry is still the leading smartphone platform in the United States with 37.3% of the market. The BlackBerry Torch probably helped RIM keep customers but the trends do not portend well…
It’s the beginning of the month, and that means Google has updated their Android version fragmentation stats on the developer’s website. The numbers haven’t grown dramatically, but versions 1.6 and below are slowly dwindling away (no surprise there). As it stands today, approximately 77% of Android users are running on version 2.1 (Eclair) or 2.2…
There are some interesting numbers coming out of Nielsen today, as the firm is saying that 28% of U.S. mobile subscribers are now rocking a smartphone. That means that the vast majority of U.S. cell phone users aren’t on an iPhone or Droid X but are instead using a feature phone or an entry-level device.…
NPD just recently released their newest report about the big guns of the smartphone market, and if you’ve yet to see the trend forming, this report will easily show you what’s going on – spoiler, Android is the big winner. The 3rd quarter of 2010 saw Android skyrocket, BlackBerry sliding, and Apple surfing on flat…