When it comes to owning the latest cell phones, Asians and Hispanics are the ones on top of their game. While 31% of all Americans now own a smartphone, for Asians and Hispanics that number rises to a whopping 45%! Just 27% of Whites own a smartphone. 33% of Blacks own a smartphone.
No doubt, some [...]
In most countries, men are more likely to be smartphone users, but not in the USA where women hold the upper hand.
When it comes to teens using cell phones, most would like to be in Italy where almost half of all teens own smartphones.
More than 40 percent of all Twitter posts now originate via mobile phone, up from 25 percent a year ago, according to Dick Costolo during an interview at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
Twitter now boasts more than 175 million registered users worldwide. Users have sent 25 billion tweets over the past 12 [...]
Although RIM Blackberry continues to hang on to the lead in smartphone adoption in the USA, it continues its trend of losing market share with considerable use moving to the newest competitor, Google Android.
Check out this creative and pretty funny infographic on cell phone etiquette. Kind of breaks down cell phone etiquette from a elementary school, textbook graphic level. Interesting and pretty funny at the same time.
Props to Communications Electronics, a cell phone store franchise across Maryland, Delaware, and DC for putting this together.
Cell Phone Etiquette Graphic
Google Android is red hot with over 40% market share of the smartphones purchased in November. Interestingly, it was November that the new Android phones became available for T-Mobile phones so that must have had some impact on their significant increase.
Android still remains behind the iPhone in total market share in November, 2010, but that [...]
The number of households in the United States that are cell phone only and do not have a fixed landline phone continues to increase consistently. In the first half of 2010, 26.6% of American households are now cell-phone only, according to a study by the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
It seems as though the amount [...]
Among teens and young adults, why is it that Americans age 15-24 are the least likely to be picking out their own cell phones? Is this the helicopter parent in action?
Use of mobile video in the USA.
The average time spent per month increased 11% to three hours and 37 minutes, up from 3:15 a year ago. That averages out to about 6.5 minutes a day per mobile video user.
Not surprisingly, mobile TV watching skews younger. Teens (13 to 17) clocked in with the highest monthly [...]
RIM Blackberry is losing market share in the ever changing marketplace for smartphones as Google Android and Apple iPhone continue to surge.
According to a study by The Nielsen Company, here is the breakdown of future anticipated purchases by men and women.
Among female respondents, 30.9 percent are planning to purchase an iPhone–22.8 percent want an Android [...]
