In 2015, 3.8 billion mobile handsets – slightly more than 60% of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide – will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study from ABI Research. That doubles today’s penetration rate and the research indicates that the installed base of full Internet browsers will exceed that of proxy-based browsers sometime in 2012.…
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Almost a third of consumers are banking on their mobile
Research from mobile messaging service Sybase 365, shows that demand for mobile internet and banking services has exceeded expert expectations, with almost 50% accessing the internet on their phone and almost a third of consumers are banking on their mobile. Thirty percent of mobile users currently use banking services on their mobile handset, compared to…
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Smartphones now 25% of US market
Android shows rapid growth as smartphone market grows to 25% in the US. Smartphones are really taking off in the US where they now represent 25% of the US mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company. Not only are Smartphones growing they’re also predicted to…
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Mobile data usage grows exponentially
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…
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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…
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Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10
Mobile Loose Ends 30/07/10 A weekly round up of things we thought were useful but didn’t have time to cover 1) Are your apps secure? Smartphone security business Lookout has launched the App Genome Project the largest study of mobile apps ever. It’s intended to be an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications…
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Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010
Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010, driven by sales of smartphones and entry-level handsets. The worldwide mobile phone market continued to show signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2010, driven primarily by smartphone vendors and companies outside the top five leaders worldwide. According to IDC’s Worldwide…
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iPhone 4 goes on sale at Three shops
As reported yesterday Three is stocking iPhone 4′ s from today but as we reported yesterday we’re not going to be getting a phone from Three, and the phones are only available to new customers. “The anticipation around iPhone 4 has been unprecedented,” said Marc Allera, sales and marketing director at Three. “The feedback we received…
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iPad apps have more in-app purchases than iPhone apps
The latest Distimo Report (July 2010 looking at June 2010) from app store analytics company Distimo looks in detail at app stores and how effective they are – particularly for in-app purchases. In the report Distimo looked at the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi…
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RIM betas BlackBerry App World version 2.0
If you’re one of the few many users who use BlackBerry’s App World to download apps, updates, content etc you’ll be very pleased to see that App World 2.0 has just gone live in beta form. App World 2.0 brings a number of enhancements to the app site, and some much needed new payment options…
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By limiting mobile data usage you limit the future
The big question for operators today is not what monthly fee should they charge for the latest smartphone? But it is, how much data does a smartphone user use? The networks are all adopting smartphones as their defacto device, but nobody knows quite what a strain this will put on their network. Many are worried…
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Mobile Roadie app builder software goes Pro
iPhone and Android mobile app building platform Mobile Roadie, has launched an even more customisable version of their app builder called Mobile Roadie Pro. The update to Mobile Roadie now allows users full creative control from a platform, including full customisation of menu layout, colours, buttons, and fonts. Pro also supports multiple categories of content,…
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Three and the case of the returning iPhone 4
Yesterday my iPhone 4 arrived, hurrah. Unfortunately sometime in the next five days it’s going back to Three, and I’m changing to another phone company because I’ve had enough, boo. How did things turn so bad? Well it all happened at least eight weeks ago when I expressed a desire to upgrade to an iPhone…
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Amazon mini Kindle goes on sale
Amazon has upped the ante and has launched a mini Kindle with a pricing structure to hit the mass-market, and free 3G wireless connectivity. Fed up with being the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to mobile headlines, Amazon have launched a reduced-sized Kindle, aimed at attacking the mass market, and the iPhone…
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Mcommerce only working on smartphones
According to a survey by BrandBank Mcommerce is only really working for smartphone users with just 4% of UK consumers find making mobile purchases pain free. The 2010 Brandbank Mcommerce Content Report, shows some major attitudinal differences between consumers that own smartphones (21%) and those who don’t (79%), but the overall trend is one of…
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WebWorks enterprise content publishing solution for iPad and ePUB
If you have huge amounts of content and you need to get it onto the iPad or any e-publishing format then you’re in luck. US software publishers WebWorks have launched a new product, ePublisher 2010 Mobile Plus, that takes content and automatically reformats it for a variety of different mobile formats including the ePUB standard…
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Women are spending 30% more time than men on social networking sites
Figures from comScore show what we all thought, that social networks are used more by women than men. While there are only slightly more women using social networking sites than men, they spend over 30% more time than men when they’re online. comScore’s report on women’s online usage, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping…