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A recent survey by ChangeWave asked some 4,000 iPhone owners across AT&T and Verizon about dropped calls, and as you might expect, 4.8% reported dropped calls over the last 90 days on AT&T, while Verizon only reported 1.8%. Despite the difference in call quality, overall customer satisfaction is comparable: 82% of Verizon iPhone 4 owners…
comScore is showing off their survey numbers for December through February, and of the 30,000 U.S. smartphone owners surveyed, a solid 33% had an Android handset of some kind. That lines up nicely with other recent data that puts Android as the top mobile OS in America, as well as the UK. Samsung was the…
You may have saw the research which found that the Verizon 4G LTE network was faster than the Sprint 4G WiMax network (at least in New York). Well, Sprint is firing back and saying this is hooey. The report found that the Verizon 4G LTE network averaged 9.1 Mbps down, 5.28 Mbps up with a…
It is a fact that with the rising smartphone adoption, more and more people use mobile Internet services while on the go. As a matter of fact, Juniper Research predicts that the amount of mobile data traffic generated by smartphones, feature phones and tablets will exceed 14,000 petabytes by 2015. To put this figure in…
Last year a total of 302 million smartphones were shipped, representing a 71% growth over 2009’s shipment levels. According to ABI Research, Android will be the biggest winner of the smartphone race, growing from 69 million smartphones shipped last year to a prime position in 2016 when it is set to capture 45% of the…
It was at the MIX10 conference when the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. A year later they have some impressive numbers to share: Developers: 1.5 million people have downloaded the Windows Phone Developer Tools,…
The debate on why there are so few women in the field of science and technology rages on, but Google is being proactive and is teaching young girls in New York City how to develop Android applications. In Google’s New York office, a group of high school girls with little or no coding experience are…
The Apple iPhone has been a massive success, as this smartphone kicked off the mobile revolution we’re seeing today and the iconic device has sold over 100 million units through its four iterations. At least one company believes that the upcoming iPhone 5 could sell 100 million units on its own. The chart above comes…
IDC recently published their forecast for the worldwide smartphone market, and they foresee 450 million units shipping in 2011 compared to 303 million last year; that translates to 49% growth, which is four times more than the overall mobile market. IDC claims Android will snatch up 45% of the worldwide smartphone market share by 2015,…
Mobclix has rounded up some interesting data to show just how the Verizon iPhone has penetrated the U.S., and who is using the device on the network and why. For the most part, the reasons for switching to the Verizon iPhone shouldn’t surprise anyone: reception/coverage issues, mobile hotspot features and reputation. Verizon is known for…