This fall, Motorola will be launching its first dual SIM phone, actually two them, in Europe. The two models are Motorola EX115 and EX128 and according to European retailer Germanos they will hit the stores on October 18th. Pre-orders have already started (here are the two links), but that doesn’t mean we have all the…
In-Stat: Mobile TV may still be a niche market, but it does make billions
We’ve been hearing about the promise of mobile TV for quite some time now. Most (optimistic) plans and projections missed the target as the service is still not widely used outside of Japan and South Korea. However, there are plans to push it to the masses and eventually make some money along the way. According…
Study: iPhone Users Download Average of 40 Apps, Android 25, BlackBerry 14
The last we had heard in mobile app research was a forecast that there would be 25 billion downloads by 2015, and along the same vein, Nielsen has released the results of a survey of some 4,000 mobile users about their application downloading habits. As you’d expect, iPhone users were the most active, with an…
ABI Research: Mobile modem vendors are already on the 4G starting line
The number of mobile broadband subscribers is expected to surpass 1.5 billion by 2015. Although the majority of the folks will connect to the Internet using their smartphones, a number of them will do so via their tablet, netbook and laptop computers. The mentioned non-phone products sport cellular modems that allow users to connect to…
Survey: More Shoppers Concerned About iPhone on Verizon than Antenna
Analyst firm Piper Jaffray did a survey of 258 Minneapolis cell phone owners about their purchasing decisions, and 20% of those who had heard of it said that the whole Death Grip / Antennaegate situation on the iPhone 4 affected which phone they ended up buying. That’s nice and all, but the real news is…
Juniper Research: 3D functionality and dual core processors to drive smartphone shipments to reach $94 billion by 2015
3D functionality and technology innovations such as dual-core processors will drive the high–end smartphone market over the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Today’s smartphones features like the app store connectivity and touchscreens will be present in over 80% of handsets shipped in the U.S. by 2015. Western Europe and Far East & China…
IDC: Smartphone shipments grew 55.5% – Android the ‘wild card’
If you still think these smartphones are just a fad, you should check out the latest numbers from IDC because the firm’s research said smartphone shipments for the first half of the year grew 55.5% compared to last year. IDC said vendors shipped 119.4 million smartphones for the first six months of 2010, compared to…
Apple iPod touch Comprises 37.7 Percent of All iOS Devices Sold
Remember when Steve Jobs was telling Apple fans about iOS usage and activations, boasting just how much they were better than Google’s Android? During its September 1 event, in which a new line of iPod players were introduced, Apple said that 120 million iOS devices were sold to date. That’s one iOS device for just…
ABI Research: Mobile advertisers to spend $1.8 billion on location-based campaigns in 2015
Although location-based advertising is still in its infancy, there are no doubts it’s poised for massive growth. According to a new study from ABI Research, businesses will spend $1.8 billion on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketing budgets. ABI’s practice director Neil Strother says that location-based advertising is still a very…
Distimo’s July 2010 report is here
Distimo, which we know (or that’s just me calling them like that) as Google Analytics of mobile apps, is out with its July 2010 report. As usual, they don’t talk about Apple’s AppStore only, but also cover Google Android Market, Blackberry App World (worldwide), Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.…