Mobile data usage continues to grow exponentially as 3G technology spreads globally. According to ABI Research data usage is expected to increase from 2009 to 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 42% in Western Europe and 55% in North America. In 2010, the average North American user is expected to consume 159 megabytes…
Day: 2 August 2010
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Windows Phone 7 coming in October
Microsoft are to launch Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handsets into Europe first, with a launch in October, followed by a launch in the US in November. The COO of Microsoft, Kevin Turner, let slip the launch date of WP7 at a recent conference where he hosted a presentation snappily titled “Windows Phone 7 – Getting…
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Apple take down antennagate vids
Apple’s claims that it’s not just them that has problems with mobile phone antennas has created bad feeling amongst Apples competitors. So, it’s no surprise that Apple have now removed videos of other devices suffering from similar problems from its Antenna site www.apple.com/antenna Sometime over the last few days Apple has removed the videos of…
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Email is still the dominant activity for US mobile users
US consumers are still loyal to email on their phones despite the rise of social networking, and in fact email use actually increased rather than decreased over the last year. The research comes from a survey, entitled What Americans Do Online, and compares and contrasts PC and mobile behaviour, and the way US consumers spend…
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T-Mobile now stocks the iPhone 4
In the game of iPhone bingo it’s time to shout Full House!! as T-mobile finally comes on board with the iPhone 4. The only major network not to stock the iPhone is Virgin Mobile, but it can’t be long surely? The iPhone 4, which launched over a month ago, is available on tariffs starting from…