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The low-cost smartphones costing less than $150 present a strong growth opportunity for the mobile phone industry, according to the new NPD DisplaySearch Smartphones: Displays, Designs and Functionality report. These devices are forecast to double every year from 2010 to 2016, increasing from 4.5 to 311 million. As you would expect, 60% of the demand…
In its latest report, ABI Research is looking at prospects of NFC-based mobile payments, forecasting their rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. According to the research company, the convergence between payment types — proximity, P2P and online — stored on a single NFC…
In its latest report, Strategy Analytics says that the number of smartphones in use worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark for the first time ever in Q3 2012. The research company says that it took 16 years for the industry to reach this historic milestone, whereas it expects that the new billion will be reached…
The GSMA unveiled results of a global, multi-year study that examines not only the total number of mobile connections, but also the number of individual mobile subscribers, defined as the unique users subscribed to mobile services. Undertaken by the GSMA’s Wireless Intelligence team over three years and across 39 developed and developing markets, the research…
According to a new report by Juniper Research, new “Rich Communication Suite” (RCS) mobile messages will generate 83 billion messages per annum in five years’ time. However, the research company also notes that this will be less than 1% of total messaging traffic in 2017, with “older services” like SMS, and already-established IP services such…
Pretty much every smartphone users relies on his/her device to keep up with their buddies and latest news on social networks. As you would expect, iPhone (iOS) and Android users are leading this trend, but it’s interesting to look at their behaviors and see the differences. For instance, highest ranked social apps for Android are…
research2guidance is launching a series of reports on several key countries within the global mobile apps market. Their first target is the UK, which is described as the biggest app market in Europe, outnumbering other European countries in terms of revenue generated by app downloads, in-app advertisement, as well as the sheer number of downloads…
It’s always interesting when stories pop up pitting Apple’s flagship iPhone 5 against Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III device. This time it’s web traffic volume between the two devices. The iPhone 5 has been out for a little under a month now, and in fact Apple announced it one month ago from today, but in…
The International Telecommunications Union published new figures about the state of mobile usage worldwide. The big milestone here is that the entire world population has now purchased 6 billion cell phone subscriptions, two billion alone of which are from China and India. With the global population estimated to be at a little over 7 billion,…
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Mobile Working Group released findings from a survey that calls out the specific security concerns enterprise executives say are the real and looming threats as it relates to mobile device security in the enterprise environment. The report, titled “Top Mobile Threats,” is a result of a survey of more than…