China Mobile is one of the most impressive carriers worldwide when it comes to stats like subscriber count. They now have 464 million subscribers, from a total of 650 million mobile services customers in China. If you thought that the numbers above were impressive, wait till you read this: China Mobile subscribers sent no less than 607.1 billion texts...
Two weeks before the 2009 Formula 1 season starts we’re being treated with the finest example of viral I’ve seen recently. A McLaren and Formula 1 fan managed to get hold of a BlackBerry Storm app that allowed him to control an F1 toy car, while using the phone like the genuine driving wheel. McLaren liked the man’s initiative and...
Cheap portable devices have become a trend in the developing countries, specially the ones created by those nations. India is the best example for this trend, since they’ve just recently unveiled a $10 laptop. Venezuela also joins this phenomenon, as its president, Hugo Chavez announced a $14 phone: Known as El Vergatario, the cellphone packs...
IDC’s latest study revealed that the mobile phone market is in for an important slowdown next year, as total cellphone volumes will be 2.2% lower than in 2008. This is the first time this has happened since 2001, but we can blame it all on the economic depression. The same study showed that we’ll end this year with a global growth of 7.3%,...
Federal figures released this week show that the number of homes that use cellphones and no landlines has grown to 18%, the segment being led by adults living with roommates, renters and young people. There are also 13% of households that use landlines, but get the majority of their calls on their mobiles, according to the same survey. These figures...
A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey recently revealed that mobile devices will be the primary “tools” used to connect to the Internet in 2020. Also, voice recognition and touchscreen displays are considered to be the future of mobile technology, according to the same survey, that involved hundreds of Internet leaders, activists...
