Tag: smartphones

Smartphones 82% of all Pay monthly connections on Everything Everywhere

Everything Everywhere, have a poor last quarter and reveal that smartphone devices on the network now account for 82% of all Pay monthly phones Badly-named, twin-headed telecomms company Everything Everywhere, announced their results today, and as part of the results revealed that smartphone devices on the network now account for 82% of all Pay monthly connections –…

Nearly a third of Europeans browsed the web via mobile in Dec 2010

comScore have released a complete round up to the last year in mobile that includes some spectacular figures for December 2010. The inaugural comScore 2010 Mobile Year in Review, shows 29% of Europeans browsed the mobile web in December 2010, and smartphones account for 31% of the mobile market. The report looks at key trends…

31 percent of mobile usage is via wifi

David Harper CEO of PercentMobile has shared some mobile traffic figures with the people on Mobile Monday and we thought they were so good we’d share them with you. The PercentMobile figures come from analysis of the last 6 months aggregate UK mobile Web Usage from a sample of over 2.5 million UK uniques, over…

85% of smartphones will ship with GPS by 2013

ABI Research anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation—turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements. Figures from ABI Research predict that by 2013, 85% of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will ship with accelerometers, and almost 50% will…

Smartphones herald a new era of smart shopping

According to new research from PriceGrabber.co.uk, smartphones have created a new type of shopper, ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you to the, “smartshopper.” The smartshopper doesn’t just use their smartphone to browse the internet for bargains they also use it as a bargaining tool in store, and it’s the big ticket items that the…

Smartphone market to grow to 224 million in 2010

Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 21% this year to 224 million, according to the latest “Mobile Devices Market Forecast Analysis” forecast from ABI Research, and remarkably the reason for the huge growth has nothing to do with the iPhone or Android. Vice president of forecasting Jake Saunders says, “While there is considerable fanfare and…

Smartphone sales on the rise

iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple  rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…

Android overtakes iPhone

The figures are out for smartphone sales and Android based smartphones are doing incredibly well in the US, while Nokia continues to dominate worldwide. According to analysts NPD Group Android is now number two position in the US on consumer smartphone sales with 28%, behind RIM (36%) and ahead of the iPhone (21%). “As in…