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Google found the time to sneak in some pretty interesting numbers before Apple held the day hostage with its iPhone 5 announcement. The search giant announced an incredible milestone of 500 million Android device activations. Hugo Bara, Android’s director of product management, touted the company’s glowing achievement in a Google+ post saying, “Today is a…
RIM enthusiastically boasted toward the end of August that carriers love BlackBerry 10 so far, at least based on the progress RIM has made with the upcoming mobile OS. While the carriers’ opinions are presumably still positive, it looks like they’re being careful not to rely too heavily on it. Between the abundance of perfectly…
We’ve already talked about prospects of the smart accessory market. This time Juniper is focused on healthcare and fitness accessories, saying that these two sectors will account for half of all the smart accessory sales, which are set to reach 110 million units in 2017, up from 10 million this year. The report noted that…
One thing that has been a bit of an issue for Android as an operating system, is getting most of its phones out in the market on its latest version OS. Well, today the search giant has made tremendous progress compared to where it was a few months back. Not too long ago, Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)…
If you’re reading IntoMobile from time to time, the chances are you’re familiar with the mobile wallet services. The good news is that this concept will soon reach the mainstream users with more and more people recognizing what it stands for and how it works. In Canada, 56% of users of mobile banking apps (nearly…
The latest Distimo Report examines which mobile social networks are doing well in which countries. The major findings are: In the past two years, the social category grew much faster than the overall app store average. The download volume among the top 100 most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone in the…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the market for augmented reality apps, predicting that by 2017, over 2.5 billion mobile augmented reality (AR) apps will be downloaded to smartphones and tablets per annum. To put this number into perspective, that’s 3.5 times the number of downloads achieved by Angry Birds in 2011!…
More and more people are buying tablets with second quarter of this year setting a new record for media tablet shipments, reaching nearly 25 million units and representing 36% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 77% year-over-year (YoY) growth. Needless to say, Apple is still dominating this game, with its iPad accounting for almost 69% of worldwide volumes…
First Windows 8 tablets are set to hit the store shelves later this year and ABI Research predicts that their early success will largely depend on the price. According to the research company, Windows-based tablets will capture an estimated 1.5% of total tablet shipments for 2012. And if priced aggressively towards current Android tablets, these…
Mobile messaging ad spend is set to reach $7.4 billion by 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research, with location-based SMS driving the growth. Location-based SMS schemes like O2 More are opt-in and the consumer can choose which types of offers they would like to receive. These types of schemes will become more…