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Nvidia has decided to address the need for multi-core processing in our mobile phones with the Tegra 2, much like most personal computers did just half a decade ago. Everyone loves to call their smartphones mini computers that fit right in their pockets, and that’s basically what they are. We can view videos, play 3D…
A new study from the GfK Group suggests that smartphone owners aren’t loyal to any handset maker but Apple iPhone owners buck the trend slightly. The GfK survey found that 56% of smartphone owners will be keeping their options open when it comes to which type of phone they will buy next. It also said…
Many of us believe that the Apple iPad and tablets will soon eat into the PC sales market but now Gartner has some numbers to back this up. While the Apple iPad and tablets aren’t going to immediately replace your next PC but it will have an impact on the margins. Full-fledged computers aren’t going…
A recent survey of 269 students from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania has turned up some results that you and I might not find too surprising, but will probably send parents up the wall. Roughly nine in ten students admitted to sending text messages during class and half of those say it’s incredibly easy to do…
As part of its “Mobile Health Market Report 2010-2015,” research2guidance conducted a global survey amongst leading mHealth developers and healthcare companies and found that rather than app stores, mHealth apps will predominantly be distributed through traditional healthcare channels by 2015. At the moment, app stores are still the distribution channels of choice, but in the…
As mobile voice revenues continue to decline, Operators in the Indian sub-continent are looking for ways to offset the decrease in revenues by focusing on mobile data strategies. As a result, “tremendous opportunities” are created in the Content & Application sector, which according to a new study from Juniper Research, will increase from $4 billion…
Buoyed by the success of the Apple iPad and Android devices, the tablet market is supposed to hit 100 million units by 2013, according to research from DigiTimes. According to the research: Smartphones, tablet PCs and notebooks will all become the mainstream terminal devices in the mobile Internet market in the future with smartphone shipments…
According to new data from Wireless Intelligence, the number of LTE connections in Asia Pacific will exceed 120 million by 2015. As expected, China will lead the ride, accounting for nearly half (57.9 million) of the total number. Other markets that will follow China on its “rise to LTE” include Japan, with 26.5 million, Indonesia…
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and its official research partner, Luth Research, released the October 2010 U.S. Mobile Consumer Briefing, which is MMA’s monthly survey of U.S. adult mobile phone users about their mobile marketing behaviors and opinions. The survey found that 59% of mobile consumers plan to use their mobile phone for holiday shopping…
Although the concept of a mobile hotspot device like MiFi is relatively new, In-Stat seems bullish on the prospects of such products. As a matter of fact, the research company says that the number and types of mobile hotspots is growing almost daily and forecasts that revenue from standalone mobile hotspot devices will approach $500…