The folks at AdMob have just released their May 2009 Mobile Metrics Report… and, as per usual there is some great stuff to glean from their findings. This month, amongst all the other data and findings, they take a look at the distribution of users of the iPhone apps in their network as apposed to…
iPhone draws BlackBerry customers, claims most loyal and satisfied following
Yet more studies have confirmed what iPhone users have known for years. iPhone owners apparently aren’t just more happy with their devices, they’re indeed more loyal to the iPhone brand. Especially compared to the BlackBerry crowd. New stats from Crowd Science have been released that indicate a solid 40% of non-iPhone smartphone users would make…
Berg Insight: 130 million mobile LBS users in Europe by 2014
In its new report, Berg Insight is predicting that the number of European users of mobile location-based services (LBS) will grow from 20 million users last year at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 37% to reach 130 million users in 2014. Local search, navigation services and social networking are believed to become…
Palm Pre struggling to drive downloads from App Catalogue
In the two weeks after the Palm Pre’s launch, which saw Sprint stores across the country selling-out of Palm Pre stock, the iPhone 3G S was the talk of the town. Fortunately for Palm, the Pre is back in the spotlight. This time, we take a look at the Pre and its ability to drive…
Survey: Mobile internet trumps desktop surfing for iPhone users
There’s no doubt that iPhone and iPod Touch users are among the most mobile-web-savvy smartphone users out there. The Mobile Safari web browser has been at the top of the mobile browser market for a good while, only recently losing the No. 1 spot to the Opera Mini mobile web browser. A new study shows…
Forget electronic smartphones, let’s talk about ‘spintronic’ smartphones!
While the rest of the world goes through life taking the Silicon-based electronics around them for granted, a group of researchers is looking to the future of computing technology. A group of physicists at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a new type of exotic material that…
iPhone for the young and young at heart
Quick. What’s the typical age of someone you picture using an iPhone? Be honest, you’re probably working with an image of some 18 to 24 year old hipster holding an iPhone against a colored background. Don’t worry, that’s what Apple wants you to think at the mention of an “iPhone.” In reality, there really is…
iPhone 3G S vs Palm Pre: Total Cost of Ownership
When it comes to buying a mobile phone, there’s more to consider than just the up-front price tag. The “total cost of ownership” (TCO) is sometimes a more revealing way to consider the overall cost of a particular cellphone. Especially when two phones offer similar sticker prices. For example, the two hottest smartphones this summer…
Nokia working on contact-less ‘ambient charging’
While the Palm Pre’s Touchstone manages to charge the Palm Pre sans wires, thanks to a little bit of magnetic induction technology, the Pre still needs to be in physical contact (or at least close enough for the Touchstone’s magnetic field to work its magic) with the Touchstone to draw a charge. Nokia, on the…
Juniper Research: Mobile advertising to reach $5.7 billion by 2014
According to Juniper Research, mobile advertising will not be exempt from the recession. As a matter of fact, constraints on budgets imposed by the global economic downturn had resulted in an increasing migration of adspend from above the line to below the line channels. On one hand, companies realize that the need for engagement with…