The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
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Analysis, News
Phone + Android = Google Phone? Nope
Where’s the clarity in the Android market? Google have just announced a use for it’s old Nexus One website as place for users to go to find “real” Google phones, but is that really any help? The www.google.com/phone site – previously occupied with Nexus One details – now has a list of “Google” phones, as…
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Why mobile needs a “broadband moment”
One of the key problems with building the mobile web and mobile apps is the speed at which the data arrives at the phone. What’s the point of building a mobile video website if the user has to wait ten minutes for the video to start? If you were to believe the networks they have…
Analysis, News
Apple commences phase 2 of the World Domination plan
Look at the graphic to your right. Blink once, blink twice. Yes it really is still there. Apple “are” selling the iPhone in easy instalments, and it’s not going to make the mobile operators happy, it’s just going to make Apple richer, and it’s going to make the iPhone – the iPad can’t be too…
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FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…
Analysis
American drivers fear texts more than life
HLP Im a8out 2 CRASH LOL ;-( The American Automobile Association (AAA) has found that the majority of motorists on US roads feel less safe than they did five years ago, and what are they afraid of? Other motorists texting while driving. Nearly a quarter of Americans admitted to reading or texting while driving. The…
Analysis
Facebook to deliver a mobile phone?
Reports over the weekend from sites like TechCrunch were all alight about the possibility of Facebook having their own phone. Facebook have of course denied it, but what if it were true? What would happen if Facebook had their own mobile? Well for a start it would make perfect economic sense. Many of the sites…
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Everyone is downloading apps, but they aren’t searching
Smartphones – not just iPhones – are encouraging users to download apps if new figures from Nielsen are to be believed, however none of them appear to be using search to find them. A new Nielsen survey shows that as of June 2010, 59% of smartphone owners and nearly 9% of feature phone owners report…
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App figures round up – Android now number two
We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…
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Autonomous mobile search is the new future
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt closed this years IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin with some thoughts about search and mobile. It’s a reflection of just how important mobile really is that the head of one of the largest technology businesses in the world takes time to look at mobile and talk about mobile in the…
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BlackBerry App World failing at every level
We think the BlackBerry App World is possibly the worst app store out, it fails at all levels and if it doesn’t improve soon it’s going to die a well-deserved death. The BlackBerry App World store just isn’t working and it’s not just us that thinks that, RIM think it too. Why else would they…
Analysis
Torch, N8, WP7, what Else?
This weeks launch of both the RIM Torch 9800 and the Nokia N8 and the announcement of the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Phones reminds us of just how sick we are of seeing the phrase “iPhone killer.” It’s also got us thinking about what happened to the killers of the past. First off there was…
Analysis
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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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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30% of Facebook’s 500m users access via mobile
Thirty percent of Facebook users (150 million) are accessing via mobile, a growth of 50% in just three months. Facebook has hit the 500 million user mark, and it’s done it on the back of mobile. Figures from Facebook show that 150 million of the 500 million subscribers now access Facebook via a mobile, up…
Analysis
Even the comment spam hates the iPhone 4
As you would expect from a popular site we get quite a lot of comment spam. Most of it is utter garbage, there’s a lot along the lines of; “your site is really great, i really love it, and by the way did you know there’ s this great slimming product etc”, Or it’s a few…
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Microsoft to give developers cash for apps
Microsoft are going to be boosting the number of apps developed for the Windows Phone 7 platform, by paying developers to develop for the platform and compensating developers who don’t make as much as they expect. But will this be enough? When you decide to build an application on a particular platform there are a…
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Can you hang on a minute I’m multitasking
Mobile’s are encouraging us all to multitask so says a new Nielsen/Yahoo survey on US surfing, watching and viewing behaviours, but advertising just isn’t stepping up to the mark. We’re multi-tasking a lot, the web is now a multi-channel world, with video, audio and text, links to Twitter, Facebook, etc and we’re all happy to…
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Mobile app revenues to exceed $30 billion by 2015
Analysts Juniper Research www.juniperresearch.com forecast that, the combined revenues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including “freemium” and subscription) and advertising, including apps on portals and dedicated app services like iTunes etc is expected to rise from just under $10 billion (£6.9 billion) in 2009 to $32 billion (£20.7 billion) in 2015.…
Analysis, Editorial
Editorial – Android just doesn’t work
Last night I spent three hours in an extremely hot room in the name of research. The research was for a mobile company, who will remain nameless, but I can reveal the research was all about smartphone interfaces and how they compared. Each phone in the research was subjected to the same against the clock…