Mobile phone customers that have made the switch over to smartphones quickly realize the smartphone’s utility. With core functionality and applications, the device can replace many other gadgets in our life..including your alarm clock, your point and shoot camera and maybe even your watch. So, smartphone owners – do you ever actually make any phone…
I was born not too long before this timeframe started…and I really liked this infographic showing how teens have changed over the last 30 years. From: BestEducationDegrees.com
InnoTech is Oregon’s main tech conference each year. This year, it’s coming up on 21 April at the Oregon Convention Center. The 8th annual conference has multiple tracks that appeal to a wide audience including marketing, an executive CIO track, SharePoint, mobile and others. The Mobile track is where I pick up. I’m leading a…
BabyCenter (a site dedicated to parenting and child rearing) recently published a study called the 2011 Mobile Mom Report. It shows what anyone who’s been to a playground or soccer game recently has already seen: today’s savvy moms love their smartphones and the utility these portable computers present. Looking at the statistics, a few interesting…
For some time here in the United States, especially in younger age ranges, trends have shown that a large portion of phone users are forgoing landlines and adopting mobile phones as a single mode of communication. It seems that the Chinese are seeing landlines as disposable as well. China is a country in which 87%…
If you are a smartphone user, you are likely utilizing your mobile phone in many different aspects of your life. From checking Facebook while you’re on the bus or waiting in a line to snapping photos of your friends and family; smartphones are immensely useful in a many different contexts. There is one arena where…
If you have a smartphone, what activity do you conduct most often on your favorite little handheld device? If you’re like most Brits, the functions you use your phone for are likely social networking. In fact, Facebook is garnering a truly incredible amount of time that folks in the UK spend on their mobile phones….
One of the great things about Android is the open source community that releases really interesting custom versions of the Android OS. Because Android is fully open source, groups can create custom versions of the OS for different Android phones. CyanogenMod is one of those groups. The organization has released a release candidate of Version…
According to research firm IDC, there were more smartphones shipped in the last quarter of 2010 than personal computers. Looking at the numbers, PC shipments number 92.1 million units while 100.9 million portable devices were sold. This means that for the first time in history – more consumers picked up smartphones than computers…representing a huge…
Option Wireless is a company that I met recently at the Consumer Electronics Show. This darkhorse in the mobile world makes some amazing, tiny chips that can convert any electronic device into a data capable machine that can access the Internet for virtually any purpose. That is, by utilizing an Option module in a device,…