50.3 percent of the British population own a smartphone according to the latest research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The figures show that smartphones made up 71.4 percent of mobile phone sales in the 12 weeks ending 22nd Jan 2012. Dominic Sunnebo, Global Consumer Insight Director at Kantar, commented: “For the first time ever, you are [...]

Global mobile traffic is set to hit 10 billion mobile connections by 2016, making there more Internet connected devices on the planet than humans, according to a recent report by Cisco. Global Mobile Traffic Global mobile traffic grew 2.3 fold in 2011, more than doubling for the fourth year in a row and higher than [...]

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace surpassed the 60k active apps milestone last week; a rise attributed to the strong growth of new apps during January, where around 3,000 new apps were added each week. Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Grows Windows Phone 7 Marketplace overtook BlackBerry App World for the number of available applications worldwide thanks to [...]

Smartphones and tablets, it seems everyone has them but which demographics lead the way? comScore highlights. Tablet Demographics 2011 Currently, the European tablet audience is predominantly male standing at 61.9 percent. Users aged 25 – 34 account for the largest share of tablet share of tablet owners at 22.3 percent, whilst those aged 35 – [...]

Worldwide mobile phone market grew 6.1 percent year over year in Q4 2011. The IDC’s latest report also states that vendors shipped over 427.4 million units in Q4 2011 compared to 402.8 million units in Q4 2010. The 6.1 percent growth year over year was higher than IDC’s forecast of 4.4 percent for the quarter. [...]

Shipments of tablet devices are predicted to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017, according to the latest NPD DisplaySearch report. Emerging markets, such as Brazil, India and Russia, are expected to account for up to 46 percent of worldwide tablet shipments by 2017, an increase from the 36 [...]

The mobile market is growing in EU5 according to a report from comScore. The Rise of Smartphone and Tablet Devices In the EU5 smartphone adoption has reached nearly 42 percent, an increase of 13 percentage points over the last year. Of these countries, Spain saw the highest penetrtion with 48.4 percent, followed by the UK [...]

Research from Google indicates a clear consumer shift towards smartphones as growth is seen worldwide during 2011. The UK saw the largest increase in smartphone usage from 30 to 45 percent of the total population according to the post on Google’s official mobile ads blog. This rate stands at 38 percent in the US and [...]

Apple has increased it’s UK market share according to new data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The report states that Apple increased it’s smartphone market share in the UK from 22 percent a year ago to 34 percent. The launch of the iPhone 4S has also driven growth in the US: during the last 12 [...]

Five million people who already own a tablet device will buy a second one in 2012 according to predictions made by Deloitte. As part of it’s annual predictions for the technology industry, Deloitte forecast that increasing amounts of consumers are going to buy an additional tablet device this year; fueling the notion that 2012 will [...]