Mobile world form mobile perspective!
Archives: March 2011
Mar.
Despite what people say, mobile phones won’t replace credit cards. At least not any time soon. But, in a couple of years they will offer a completely changed shopping experience.
Mar.
For the fourth year in a row, Apple was chosen for the world’s most admired company by Fortune Magazine. It is known as as the company with most devoted followers in the industry, which can be best illustrated with the fact that the spot in the line for new iPad 2 was recently sold for $900. So many people want to become iFans, and belonging to this club comes at a price. We have investigated what the price is.
Mar.
It is estimated that mobile augmented reality apps will have almost 1.4 billion downloads by 2015 and it seems that augmented reality can be the next trend on smartphones. Users are likely to prefer augmented reality to, for example 3D, and the developers’ race to get a part of this trending market has started.
Mar.
At this moment, one half of 237 PB (petabytes (1015B) of global mobile network traffic per month is consumed by video. It is expected that its share will rise even more and that in four years it will account for two thirds of total mobile data traffic. It’s not a surprise since people love video content and on average spend as much as half an hour a day watching online videos. The question now is whether they will migrate from pc/laptops to enjoy this kind of content on their smartphones and tablets.
Mar.
Today we rarely part from our smartphones – they are either in our hands, our pockets or our bags and since they make our life more productive, social and fun we never stop to wonder whether they are a ticking health bomb waiting to explode some day in the future. Let’s see what the risks are.
