A new report from ABI about mobile Linux is getting a decent amount of press today, claiming that nearly a quarter of smartphones will be running Linux in 2013. That’s great, but… first, there’s no indication of what ABI considers to constitute the smartphone market, nor how big it is or will be in 2013.
Second, […]
New Cellphone Purchases Decline in U.S. - WSJ.com:
U.S. purchases of new cellphones declined in the first quarter for the first time in several years, signaling that worries about an economic slowdown are hurting the handset market, according to two new studies.
The drop was concentrated among poorer customers using prepaid plans and among households earning […]
Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: Don’t ditch your landline if you’re teetotal:
16% of US homes are mobile-only (but this being the US, cable connections are usually considered separately and not considered ‘fixed’ lines). This number has been increasing consistently.
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Oh, and I love the statistic that wireless-only users are more than twice as likely to binge-drink […]
Report: Mobile Web 2.0 Worth Over $22 Billion by 2013:
According to a recent report from Juniper Research, the global market for Mobile Web 2.0 could be worth as much as $22.4 billion by 2013, up from its current figure of $5.5 billion. The research firm says that among social networking, user generated content, mobile […]
Quite a milestone, as Informa says that global mobile phone penetration will hit 50 percent today, some 26 years after the first mobile network was switched on. While ownership of multiple subscriptions and SIMs means that fewer than half the world’s 6.6 billion people have phones, this stat makes very clear just how pervasive mobile […]
AOL recently released the results of the annual survey of IM trends it conducts with the Associated Press, and it says that 25 percent of the people it surveyed send IMs from their people. The survey had about 1200 respondents; 800 of them were 19 or older. For a little perspective, 27 percent of people […]
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke at Google’s analyst day today, and shared some stats about the net. This one caught my eye:
There are currently 1.244 billion internet users, on about a billion PCs. There are 3 billion mobile phones in use.
I’m not reading too much into that or anything. Just […]
Telephia and comScore announced today what many of us have long suspected - that the mobile web is growing like Topsy. In fact, 5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that the mobile web is already nearly one fifth the […]
Is the post-voice mobile era upon us? Stats out of the UK show a significant drop in the number of voice calls both pre- and postpaid users are making each week. Last year, prepay users made an average of 14 calls per week; this year, it’s down to 10. Postpaid users similarly fell, from 35 […]
In case you were still wondering why people in the mobile industry remain fascinated with China, here’s a hint:
China Mobile Subscribers Surpass Total US Population:
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, recently announced that its subscriber base grew to 301 million, surpassing the total population of the United States.
Julie Pohlig, senior analyst at Vital […]