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A recent brochure by Ericsson ConsumerLab included a bevvy of interesting figures relating to when consumers use their smartphones. Data was collected over an 18-month period from U.S. users, who would pick their top three situations to use their smartphone, revealing that 65% would in the early evening, 26% at dinner, and 40% in bed…
Pyramid Research has just released a paper forecasting the smartphone operating market share through to 2015 based on Q1’s numbers. With Nokia’s involvement in Windows Phone, Pyramid sees Microsoft’s relatively new mobile OS beating out iPhone, BlackBerry, and even Android by as early as 2013. This is based on their research across worldwide markets, and…
Greystripe conducted a study to find out how moms are using smartphones when shopping. According to the mobile ad network, over 66% of moms now use their devices in the shopping process. Of those that do so, 45% use their smartphone to locate the nearest store, 36% for price comparison, 31% for new product research…
As our mobile phones grow more and more capable each passing year, with the latest hardware coming out with dual cores and the ability to capture video in full 1080p, keeping your battery alive for a full work day becomes somewhat of a challenge. ARM, the British firm that designs the processors that go inside…
In its “Mobile Messaging Report,” Juniper Research (among other things) looks at the Application-to-Person (A2P) messaging, forecasting that revenues from such services will exceed $70 billing by 2016, effectively overtaking revenues from Person-to-Person (P2P) messaging during the year 2016. The research company points to various use-cases of A2P messaging, including financial services, advertising, marketing, business…
Hot on the heels of the IDC report yesterday, Comscore has just released its report for March 2011 in the US market. While Samsung may be the fourth largest handset manufacturer globally, the company is the largest in the US, followed by LG and Motorola. Samsung holds the top spot in the US with 24.8%…
Apple is slowly-but-surely rising to greater heights worldwide as it just took Nokia for its top spot in smartphone market share in western Europe. The shift is significant because that is Nokia’s stomping grounds. If there is any name in mobile technology trusted and respected in that part of the world, it’s Nokia. However, without…
IDC has just released its numbers for the first quarter of the year and Samsung and HTC have posted the largest growth out of the top five manufacturers. While both still trail Nokia, Apple, and RIM, we’re sure it primarily has Android to thank for the massive growth this past quarter. Nokia remains the leader…
Since the launch of the iTunes App Store by Apple in 2008, not another app market has come close to touching the iOS store until now. Or at least that’s the presumption. Apparently, the Android Market is coming close, and may even surpass the sheer number of available apps in Apple’s App Store. The rate…
So, let’s say you were one of the many Windows Phone 7 users who got sick of waiting for the NoDo update on something like the HTC Surround and you went on the tubes of the Internet to find it yourself through unofficial means. Well, it looks like you’re going to be out of luck…