Why did I buy a Firefox OS phone? Well, I wanted to see what it was like. It is sort of my job, and I can normally justify buying things to try based on the fact I can blog about them. I ordered mine about five weeks ago and it arrived yesterday. In the meantime, I'd spoken to a couple of peopl... Read more...
T-Mobile the last major US carrier to sell the iPhone, announced yesterday that it has already sold 500,000 units since the phone launched on April 12. That's pretty good, considering most other smartphones don't come close to those sales numbers in such a short time, even if they're ... Read more...
Young Americans send almost ten times as many texts as Americans over 55. According to Experian, U.S. smartphone owners aged 18 to 24 send 2,022 texts per month on average — 67 texts on a daily basis — and receive another 1,831. That's nearly double their slightly older peers, smartphone... Read more...
Another Galaxy smartphone has exploded and injured its owner. Bupyeong Fire Station in Incheon on Sunday said a 55-year-old man reported the previous day that his smartphone battery blew up in the pocket of his pants. The man said he was carrying a Samsung Galaxy Note along with a spare battery i... Read more...
The next group of smartphone buyers in the U.S. will be older, and poorer, says our own BI Intelligence group in a big report on the Future Of Digital. The importance of this for advertisers, app makers, and commerce companies is that this group has less disposable income, and therefore they will b... Read more...
How Smart Are You?: Can You Really Afford A SmartPhone? - I AM NOT A RAPPER The next monster wave in smartphone adoption will supposedly come from populous emerging markets like India, China, and Brazil. But it's important to keep something in mind: Smartphones remain expensive. That's a hu... Read more...
It's the ten-year anniversary of the launch of MLB Advanced Media, the tech arm of Major League Baseball. MLBAM sells subscriptions to live games of every single baseball team streamed online. As a result it has a unique look at how people's media consumption habits are evolving online. On the occa... Read more...
The infamous L-train subway-fight footage. For students of Internet subway-fight videos, the genre entered a new realm of virality a couple of months ago on the L train. This commenced at approximately 2 a.m. on November 8, 2011, when, with the train approaching the Myrtle/Wyckoff stat... Read more...
Here's a big shift happening right before our eyes: Smartphones now account for 50% of all mobile phones in the United States, Nielsen reports. Don't expect smartphone growth to slow any time soon. In the last three months, 66% of all mobile phones sold were smartphones Read more...