Weekly Mobile Mash-up #7

Get all the latest mobile industry related information with ON’s weekly mobile mash-up #7!

Mobile Industry News

• ON at TED: TED Global 2010 has kicked off this week in Oxford, UK. Yesterday, our very own Giles Corbett – head of ON – gave a speech to present the concept behind ON. Have a look to all people who mentioned us on Twitter in this article.
• Android – buzz world of the week:
  • Android by everyone: Google has just launched Google App Inventor, a tool that let anyone – even without developer’s skills – build an Android app for Android OS – http://bit.ly/c7CRjB
  • Android is a gold mine for HTC: HTC Q2 revenue grew by 32.8% reaching $1.88 billion. And according to CitiGroup, it should even get better this quarter! – http://bit.ly/ajRkCx
  • Mobile Network Operators and Android: After T-Mobile and Vodafone, Orange UK is about to launch its own Android handset. It should be named Boston and appears to be based on a HTC handset – http://bit.ly/co5Xlm
• KIN RIP: After Microsoft’s announcement of giving-up the KIN, fans started blaming Microsoft’s decision on the  KIN’s Fan Page and created an online memorial for the KIN – called KIN RIP
  • Steve Ballmer admitted during Microsoft’s World Partner Conference that on the phone side, the company “missed a generation with Windows Mobile”. Good of him to admit it – http://bit.ly/aLyVg6
• Backup your BlackBerry data: RIM will launch a back-up service in Autumn, enabling BlackBerry’s users to protect and restore data if their device crashes or get stolen. The product is in private beta at the moment – http://bit.ly/appt0D
• Augmented reality: AR application provider Layar announced yesterday that they’ve just reached the 1,000^th published  layer  (application) – http://bit.ly/9CPlT4
• iPad’s sales forecast: Analysts say that Apple could sell 25 million iPads in 2011 – http://bit.ly/bKqsvd

Mobile statistics and reports

• Mobile content usage: the two surveys
  • 76% of mobile users take pictures with their phones, 34% send/receive emails and 33% play music according to a Pew Internet survey – http://bit.ly/9ZtTXH
  • comScore MobiLens’ report said that 65% of U.S. mobile users are sending SMS with their phones, 32% are browsing the mobile web, 30% are using downloaded apps, and 22.5% play games – http://bit.ly/9qutJ6

• Mobile Data
  • Huge: Global mobile connections now surpass 5 billion milestones according to Wireless Intelligence – http://bit.ly/dubAEh
  • According to Pew Internet’s May study Blacks and Hispanics are more willing to use mobile data – http://bit.ly/daDTnd
  • A recent piece of research by Berg Insight reported that in Europe, mobile connections account for 17% of all data connections – http://bit.ly/cJV1tK
• Mobile commerce and mobile shopping
  • InsightExpress’s June 2010 Digital Consumer Portrait study concludes that the typical mobile shopper is not the typical shopper as most of them are males: four out of five people say they are using their mobile phone while shopping – http://bit.ly/91h6N6
  • Brandbank’s Mcommerce Content report said that m-commerce is not that popular and effective in the UK: only 4% of UK consumers claim they find making purchases via their mobile device easy, while just 12% say they don’t find anything irritating about their m-browsing experience – http://bit.ly/bTShVM
• Mobile Advertising: BuzzCity showed a 61% growth of mobile ads displayed in the second quarter of 2010 compared to the first one – http://bit.ly/cYJcaS
• Manufacturers ranking in the US:
  • comScore’s MobiLens’s May report found that Samsung is the top feature phone manufacturer in the U.S. with 22.4% of the market share, followed by LG and Motorola (21.5% and 21.2%). Nokia’s is the 5^th with only 8.1% of the shares.
  • For smartphones, RIM is first (41.7%) followed by Microsoft (24.4%), Apple’s iPhone (13.2%) and Google’s Android (13%, the only one growing) – http://bit.ly/9qutJ6
• The ON team spotted this really interesting infographic about “How are mobile phones changing social media”, made by Mark Donovan, VP of Mobile at comScore

• People don’t remember important phone numbers: A CPP survey found that mobile technology is eradicating our ability to remember important digits: 23 million Brits can’t remember their partner’s number, 30 million their best friend’s number and 22 million their parent’s number. Survey also says that 19% of UK mobile users are storing backing up their mobile address book on online on services such as ON – http://bit.ly/dtkn4z

For more news and insights about mobile industry, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook!