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A study done by Retrevo in June of this year on over 1,000 people finds that consumers would purchase a tablet device running Android if it just had the right price tag. Nearly 50% of the people surveyed said they’d get an Android tablet if it had all the features of the iPad, but cost…
We all know that the iPhone 5 will be a popular device but a new survey from PriceGrabber suggests that it will be a massive hit, as 35 percent of those surveyed planned to purchase it. Of those who said they would purchase the iPhone 5, 51 percent indicated that they will buy the smartphone…
Forget about the ballooning number of applications each mobile platform offers, and realize that for a lot of people, just having access to the internet on a device that fits in their pocket is absolutely mind blowing. Now browsers have been in phones for years, most notably the WebKit powered browser for Symbian devices that…
Good Technology — which is the provider of secure and managed enterprise mobility for iPhone, iPad, Android and other leading smartphone platforms — is out with its quarterly data report detailing the “changing landscape of IT and mobile enterprise technology.” Unsurprisingly they’ve found that iOS and Android-based devices are more and more used by the…
If you were to tell us that Android tablets would eventually become the dominant choice for consumers one day, we wouldn’t be surprised in the least bit. That said, it would be easier to believe if there were a better selection of decent Android tablets available to go against the market leading iPad 2. Well,…
According to In-Stat’s recent report, nearly two-thirds of smartphone and almost 86% of tablet users have watched video on their device, representing a “rapidly developing market.” The research company argues that even though many mobile video products have only recently launched, providers are experiencing significant growth in usage rates with mobile video consumption forecasted to…
According to a new study done by the University of Rhode Island on 204 college students last spring, 56% of students have received a sexually suggestive image on their mobile phone, 78% have received a sexually suggestive text message, and two out of three students have admitted that they’ve sent sexually suggestive texts. To break…
We’re less than 1 month into the second half of 2011, so it’s time for analysts to start making predictions about what’s going to happen by the time January 2012 rolls around. One figure we’re always waiting for the bean counters to release is how many smartphone units are going to be sold. We’ve made…
A new report from Juniper Research titled “Mobile Cloud: Smart Device Strategies for Enterprise & Consumer Markets 2011-2016” suggests that annual revenues derived from mobile cloud-based enterprise services are expected to reach $39 billion by 2016. The reason for this growth is found in mobile network operators’ strategy to offer corporate clients an array of…
The Apple iPhone has had many uses in the medical industry, and it looks like it will continue to make advances in the field as MIT researchers have just developed a way for the smartphone to detect cataracts. The CATRA system, developed by the Camera Culture Media Lab at MIT, is an iPhone attachment that…