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We’d all hoped that the iPhone 5 would be released this past summer, but since June blew right by without a successor to the iPhone 4, anticipation for it seems to be rocketing. However, it doesn’t seem to be hurting the current iPhone, as it is still the best-selling smartphone in the world–an astounding feat…
Mobile payments. We hear the phrase thrown around all the time, but what does it mean? Do you tap your phone on a sensor and magically pay for your coffee? Or do you attach some kind of doohickey to an iPad and have someone swipe a credit card through it? Or do you scan a…
The bean counters at IDC are predicting that by 2015, thanks to tablets, smartphones, and ubiquitous connectivity, unless you’re an AT&T customer that is, Americans will be using their mobile devices to access the internet more than what we’ve traditionally known as the “personal computer”. We say “personal computer”, because that term is going to…
It’s well-documented that the Samsung Galaxy S II is a beast of a phone, but thanks to this latest finding you should be even more impressed by its power. In a review conducted by AnandTech on the International Galaxy S II, the phone was found to be the most powerful Android device out. The site dedicated…
New numbers from the bean counters at IDC have been released and they show that finally, after the first smartphone, the Nokia 7650, was introduced in Q2 2002, the smartphone category has ended the reign of the dumbphone. The defeat wasn’t really a landslide, 21.8 million smartphones versus 20.4 million million dumbphones that shipped in…
MocoSpace released results from a new study on virtual goods purchases of Americans by ethnicity. Collected during June 2011 by looking at anonymous data of 40,000 mobile social gamers on the MocoSpace platform, the data and findings demonstrate that consumer markets vary in their spending habits within mobile social games. Here’s what they’ve found: Caucasians,…
Researchers at Rice University have figured out how to double mobile data transmission rates without the need to increase the number of cell towers that a network uses. To understand how they did it, you need to know how current mobile networks work. The mobile phones of today use two spectrum channels, think of a…
It’s early September, and that means Google has updated the version numbers on the Android developer site. Unsurprisingly, Gingerbread is on the rise, virtually everything else is shrinking, and Honeycomb is still barely a blip on the radar. Last month we saw Gingerbread taking up almost a quarter of the pie, and now it’s over…
A study conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project says 28 percent of U.S. adults consume mobile and location-based services. At least one of these activities (below) were done either on a computer or using mobile phones, with many users doing several of them. The following activities include: 28% of cell owners use phones to…
Digitimes is reporting a few interesting numbers for the mobile industry, particularly Apple’s smartphone business. Their research concludes that total smartphone shipments in 2011 will quite possibly exceed 462 million units. This is a 60 percent increase from 2010, in which 288 million units were shipped. Apple alone is expected to ship over 86.4 million…