Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal we’ve…
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Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers
comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…
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Cheap iPads on Orange and T-Mobile
As we announced earlier subsidised iPads are now on sale at Three, and they’re now joined by Orange and T-Mobile. iPad on Orange Orange’s pay monthly subsidised iPad plans start at £199 for a 16Gb wifi + 3G, with a data plan offering 1Gb a month any time and an additional 1Gb “quiet time” eg…
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Subsidised iPads appear on Three
Three, has now officially launched their subsidised iPads, and the pricing is very keen. The Three offer is in addition to the SIM-Only offer that it’s had since the iPad launch, and it’s only available in store, and not in all stores, the website lists around 123 stores around the UK – including Northern Ireland.…
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Juniper Research 2011 mobile predictions
Juniper Research have put together their top ten predictions for 2011 in the mobile and wireless field, and it makes interesting reading, although there are no big surprises in the list, and many of the predictions have been predicted many times over in the last ten years. However, Juniper last year predicted that this year…
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Dell finally set to launch the Venue Pro
Dell has finally put the Venue Pro on pre-order in the US, and it could be the catalyst that Microsoft are looking for to kick off sales of Windows Phone 7 devices. The figures we published earlier today from MobilesPlease for Windows Phone 7 phones started us thinking, why aren’t they selling well? What is…
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Windows Mobile 7 a slow burner
According to figures from online retailer Mobilesplease (www.mobilesplease.co.uk) Windows Mobile 7 devices are not exactly selling like hot cakes, with WP7 devices accounting for just 3% of smartphone sales and a little under 2% of overall sales through Mobilesplease and their affiliates. Nokia will be happy with the figures as Symbian 3 handsets outsold Windows…
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Smartphone market to increase by 67% in 2011
Morgan Stanley’s forecasts for 2011 and Q4 2010 show a bumper increase for Android, that should rocket them into the number one position. Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum thinks the smartphone market will grow to 297 million devices next year, up 62% year-over-year, with Android taking a 38% market share with 112 million Android shipments…
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Blackberry overtakes Apple iOS
BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the UK and the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the UK the BlackBerry OS at 43.45% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded…
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eBay mobile sales up 146% on Cyber Monday
eBay has released some figures from Cyber Monday and for the first time they’ve included some mobile figures. The eBay shopping data results from Cyber Monday 2010 (November 29th) on eBay Mobile in the United States showed that mobile sales increased by 146 percent over Cyber Monday 2009, and globally, eBay’s mobile service is on…
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Businesses very lax on mobile security
Businesses are proving to be extraordinarily lax when it comes to mobile security, with 64% of organisations allowing their users to store unencrypted company information on smartphone devices. Last week the Information Commissioner handed out the first of probably many more big fines to organisations, who didn’t take security seriously enough. It fined one business…
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Homebase sees 600% increase in sales from mobiles
Homebase has revealed that online sales from mobiles have increased over 600%* in the last year, and they are making mobile a key part of their multi-channel strategy. To help bolster those figures even more, Homebase have launched a free “on the go” shopping app. The Apple iOS Homebase app www.homebase.co.uk/app includes over 30,000 browsable…
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Mobile games revenue to double by 2015
Angry Birds has started a trend according to Jupiter Research, but discoverability is becoming a problem. A new report published today (Nov 30) by Juniper Research forecasts that revenues from in-game purchases will overtake the traditional pay-per-download model as the primary source of monetising mobile games by 2013. With Apple’s in-app billing mechanism showing the…
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PayPal looking to mobile for growth
In an interview with the New York Times “For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile” PayPal’s President Scott Thompson, said he was looking to grow PayPal revenues to more than parent eBay’s revenues, and he expects at least some of that additional revenue to come from mobile. Currently PayPal accounts for 37% of eBay’s overall revenue…
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2010 set to be a mobile christmas?
Predictions are flying in thick and fast on mobile commerce and Christmas. According to the predictions this year will either be the first year where mobile has made a significant impact on Christmas sales, or it’s likely be the year where mobile starts to make a difference. Either way it’s started a trend. According to…
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The iPad may not be the great saviour of newspapers
Digital devices like the Kindle and the iPad have media companies quivering with excitement – but will people really use them to read newspapers and magazines?
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Subsidised iPads for Christmas? Probably not
It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data plan…
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The iPad haves and the iPad have nots?
According to Pew Research figures, the iPad could potentially produce a wealth divide, where iPad-owning wealthy individuals gained access to data and information, that was out of the range of poor. However we think they’re missing something out in their figures. The Pew Research figures “Use of the internet in higher-income households” found that 95%…
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Murdoch and Branson to launch iPad newspapers
Richard Branson and Rupert Murdoch are to launch rival publications exclusively for Apple’s iPad. Branson’s Virgin is expected to unveil its iPad-only Project on 30 November, to be followed in early December by Murdoch’s The Daily, according to a post on the Financial Times website (Branson set to unveil iPad-only magazine). Branson’s Project is expected…
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Distimo gives a first hint of Windows Phone 7 user preferences
The October Distimo report gives us a peak at the way users are working with the new WP7 marketplace and although this doesn’t represent a full month’s worth of data – the report covers data on WP7 Marketplace during the period November 1 – 22 2010 in the United States – it does give an…