MobHappy

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 [...]

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 [...]

40% of US mobile subscribers do not know whether their operator offers 3G – ZDNet:
Nearly 40% of US respondents couldn’t correctly identify whether or not their mobile carrier offered 3G service, In-Stat says.
It’s a bit more surprising that more than 60% could — after all, why should Joe Public need to know what 3G [...]

Messaging company Mobile365 says the number of mobile-originated MMS messages it processed in the US increased 40% from the first to the second quarter, a pretty significant jump. The raw numbers are higher than I’d expected as well, up to 52 million and change in the second quarter. Keep in mind this is just [...]

There was some debate in the comments lately about the merits of the receiving-party-pays system used in the US and some other countries, versus the more popular calling-party-pays that’s the norm in Europe. Perhaps CPP is “better”, but as I pointed out, RPP seems to be working okay here in the US, given the rock-bottom [...]

Few Consumers Sending Pictures From Camera Phones, says the headline:
Since late 2002, the year camera phones were introduced, the number of users have increased to half of all mobile subscribers, NPD said. Fully 73 percent of the users said they were very or somewhat satisfied with the purchase.
Nevertheless, four out of five camera-phone owners [...]

When 20% of the population starts doing anything, you know you have a major trend happening. So it’s fascinating to read about M:Metrics’ latest findings.
An incredible 8.9 million UK mobile phone owners, or 20% of the mobile owning population voted in a TV reality show poll – in January. That’s not ever voted, it was [...]