Sybase has commissioned a study on Android-powered tablet computers and has found that American public is generally interested in such devices. Here’s what they’ve found: About one in four Americans (23%) would purchase an Android-based tablet. One in every two Android smartphone owners showed a preference to purchase a tablet. Only 13% of non-Android phone…
Are you holding on to your phone for longer?
We talked about the JD Power survey earlier today about smartphone satisfaction but there was some more interesting data that I wanted to point out. The report said that the growing economic woes are causing users to hold on to their devices for longer and I wanted to know what you thought of this. According…
Paintable Lithium-Ion Nanotube Battery Could Enable Even Skinnier Phones
Put this one under “crazy-awesome technology that will probably never leave the research/prototype stage”, but Stanford researchers have found away to apply carbon nanotubes in a thin, flexible, paintable film that is able to generate enough power to keep an LED going for ten minutes. Not much for mobile applications just yet, but it’s a…
Organic Batteries May Become Reality, Could Help your iPhone Last Longer
Batteries are the necessary evil for our love affair with our mobile toys. Unfortunately, batteries aren’t very environmentally friendly, which is why you should send them off for proper disposal instead of just tossing them in your trash can. Moreover, even the best little lithium-ion batteries today don’t last for as long as we’d like…
Juniper Research: Netbooks and tablets to represent 20% of LTE subscribers by 2015
LTE 4G-enabled netbooks and tablets will be used by as many as 20% of LTE subscribers by 2015, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report author Howard Wilcox said that mobile operators will be keen to embed a wide variety of devices with broadband wireless connectivity, because they see this as a…
IDC: Number of business mobile email subscribers to surpass 250 million by 2014
In its latest report, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts further expansion of the business mobile email around the world with revenues set to grow at CAGR of 13.2% over the 2009-2014 forecast period. The number of subscribers, on the other hand, will grow at even faster pace of 36.5% (CAGR). IDC argues there are multiple…
Study: Android soars at Microsoft, Apple, RIM expense
A new report from comScore said that Google’s Android operating system is gaining market share like crazy and this could be bad news for Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion. The comScore report said that there were 53.4 million people in the United States with smartphones in the second quarter, which was an 11% increase…
Study: Android Will be Number 2 Platform Before 2011, Challenge Symbian by 2014
A recent study from Gartner is forecasting mobile platform market share up to 2014, and echoes the results of earlier studies regarding Android’s current momentum. Specifically, Gartner says Android will just barely squeak ahead of BlackBerry’s number two spot in 2010, and have a significant lead by 2011. Despite a steady decline, Symbian will still…
Strategy Analytics: Superphone shipments to reach 100 million units by 2015
Strategy Analytics is out with new study results, suggesting that global superphone shipments will grow 550% to reach 100 million units by 2015. Superphone is defined as a high-end smartphone with 4-inch or larger display and superfast processor running at 1GHz or more. Among the handset makers that currently offer such devices are HTC (Evo…
Survey: Android Users Twice as Likely to Tap Ads in Apps than BlackBerry Owners
Another tidbit from that Nielsen survey last week is that a whooping 33% of Android users had opened an in-application advertisement in the last 30 days. The other platforms trailed at 29% of Windows Mobile users, 26% for iPhone owners, 24% in other (presumably made up mostly of feature phones), 22% of Palm OS users,…