BT have launched a package of new free smartphone apps to help users find and connect to its Wifi hotspots. The new apps available for both iPhone and Android based devices allow users to search for nearby hotspots including BT Openzone and BT FON and if users are BT customers, they can connect automatically. The…
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Android nipping at the iPhone’s heels in the US
July ad figures from US ad network Millenial Media’s Mobile Mix monthly survey on mobile device trends. Show Android devices nipping at the heels of the long standing leader Apple’s iOS. US Smartphone Mix July 2010 1 Apple iOS 55% 2 Android OS 19% 3 RIM OS 16% 4 Other 6% 5 Windows Mobile 4%…
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Facebook updates iPhone SDK and announces 150 million mobile users
In an official Facebook blog post by Facebook engineer Yujuan Bao announcing new updates to the Facebook iOS Software Development Kit (SDK), Bao accidentally announced that Facebook now have 150 million regular mobile users. That’s up from the 100 million users they announced in February this year, and it’s a staggering 30% of their total…
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Top ten weird and common iPhone insurance claims
As it’s Friday and we don’t feel like working we thought we’d look for something fun to occupy our time with so when we found this list of bizarre iPhone insurance claims we were delighted, and doubly so as it just confirmed what we always thought that iPhone users were a bunch of liars accident…
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Flash for iPhones? only if they’re jailbroken
It seems that there are more and more reasons for jailbreaking that precious iPhone, and the latest reason is to achieve a hooky installation of Adobe’s Flash Frash is a new app available to jailbroken iPhones and claims to be able to run Flash on an iPhone. Frash is made by the same people who…
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6.4m iPhones in the UK by the end of 2010
By the end of 2010 one in ten of the UK population will own an iPhone according to MobileSquared. By the end of this year, 6.4 million Britons will own an iPhone, according to new forecasts from research firm MobileSquared. That’s up 195% from the 2.17 million at the end of 2009, and they think…
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Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011
We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share of…
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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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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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iPhone to launch in 17 new countries this week
Apple will be launching the black version of the iPhone 4 in 17 countries from this Friday 30 July. From Friday the iPhone 4 will be newly available in lots more countries in Europe and Scandinavia including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland Additionally the iPhone will also…
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You can have any colour as long as it’s black
To misquote Henry Ford, Apple have announced that you can have an iPhone in any colour you want as long as it’s black, well for the immediate future anyway. In a short announcement, the firm confirmed that the white unit had proved difficult to manufacture, while the official web store simply offers the message that…
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Apple hits 100 million iOS devices
Apple’s figures for Q3 2010 (everything up to June 26 two days after the new iPhone 4 went on sale) show a dip in quarterly iPhone sales on Q2 but it’s a significant increase on Q3 sales for 2009. And despite Antenna-gate, Apple are bullish on their prospects for Q4 and are promising more new…
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More iPhones hit Tesco…oops
With incredibly bad timing Tesco has emailed all the users who expressed a preference for an iPhone 4 on their Tesco Mobile website an email saying that they’re receiving new stock. The email sent out this afternoon says; “Great news, from today Thursday 15th July, iPhone 4 is back in stock in Tesco Phone Shops,…
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Android to be the leading smartphone platform by 2011
Research from Ovum and speculation from AdMob show Android is catching up fast on the iPhone lead, and Android will overtake the iPhone sometime in 2011, possibly even as early as 2010. Two recent pieces of research from analysts Ovum (see earlier Bmob post) and Android owned ad sales house AdMob show that if all…
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British Gas meter reading app goes with a bang
You don’t see too many figures for business apps, most business app users tend to be circumspect about their success or failure, so it’s good to see that something as mundane as a meter reading app is doing so well. In the notes for version 2 of British Gas’s iPhone meter reading application they reveal…
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Keep taking the tablets, all 27 million of them
The tablet/slate market is going to go crazy in the next couple of quarters with a tablet expected from Research In Motion (RIM), slates from Microsoft partners running Windows 7 due at the end of the year, and iPad sales estimated to hit 27 million units in 2011. Yes, we really did say 27 million.…
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Android makes gains over Apple in US smartphone market
comScore’s latest MobiLens data for the three months ending May 2010 shows a significant 4% rise in the Google Android smartphone market compared to a fall in the Apple IOS, RIM, Microsoft and Palm smartphone markets. However while this all seems to be going in Google’s favour it has to be remembered that many Apple…
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T-Mobile finally announce iPhone 4 pricing
The last piece in the UK iPhone 4 jigsaw is now in place. T-mobile have finally announced their iPhone 4 pricing for pay monthly and pay as you go. Although they still haven’t announced when they will be available, it’s still described as coming soon Pay monthly pricing is roughly competitive with everyone else, although…
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iPhone and iPad users are sexy, official!!
Apple users spend more than anyone else on sex toys, statistics from the UK’s largest online sex toy retailer LoveHoney.co.uk (Warning don’t follow this link when you’re in the office) show. LoveHoney’s web traffic, showed that iPad users have the highest average spend on sex toys, closely followed by iPhone users, then Mac users. “Apple users…
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Nokia slips down the smartphone wants list
The latest YouGov Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience study shows that Nokia continues to lose market share to newer brands such as Apple and HTC. The survey finds that Nokia is failing to compete, with the numbers of smartphone owners planning on opting for a Nokia as their next mobile dropping substantially over the last six…