Survey: Nearly One Five Of Android Users Interested To Switch To iPhone

(GSM Insider) - Android maybe the most popular mobile platform in the world, but not every Android users remain loyal to the operating system. According to Barron's report, there are Android users that interested to purchase iPhone as their next device. This survey was conducted by Robert W. Baird analyst William Power. Here are some of the interesting stats:  Survey from Android users: - 48% of Android smartphone...

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Rogers Report: Youth And Parents Picked Texting As Their Favourite Smartphone Activity

(GSM Insider) - Rogers from Canada brings some pretty stats for us in their latest Rogers Innovation Report. In this report, they are focussing on the youth, parents and the relationship of the generation gap. The study by Rogers Canada is focussing on 509 Canadians aged 18 to 24 years old and 511 Canadian parents of 18 to 24 years old that subscribed to data plan on their phone. Here are some key findings: - 40% of those aged...

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Nokia Survey Shows QWERTY Keyboard Is The Preferred Input Method

(GSM Insider) - From the recent survey by Nokia, the result shows that QWERTY Keyboard still the preferred input method. From the survey, there are four choices - QWERTY Keyboard, touchscreen, number keypad and Voice command. The Qwerty keyboard receives the highest votes with 48.65%, touchscreen with 34.69%, number keypad 8.91% and voice command with 7.75%.  For the European countries, they are more toward QWERTY keyboard....

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Research: 27% of Smartphone Sales Come From China

China has seen exponential growth in smartphone adoption, with shipments surging at an estimated 199% year-on-year in the second quarter to 42 million units. This figure also represents a 32% increase over the previous quarter, according to Canalys. This is the second consecutive quarter of record breaking volumes in a single market. China accounted for 27% of the 158 million global smartphone shipments, compared to 16% for...

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Research: Mobile Shopping On The Rise, 45 Million In USA Used Shopping Apps

(GSM Insider) - As the smartphone increasing popular with more and more people around the world that using smartphone. The smartphone slowly replaced the traditional cellphones as the smartphone has more features. Traditionally, the cellphones being used to make calls and sending sms as it running on 2G network. But with the advance technology, more features being added to the smartphone. This makes the smartphone bring more convenience...

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16% of Android Running On 4.0 ICS, While Jelly Bean At 0.6%

(GSM Insider) - Finally Google updated their Android statistics chart. From the chart, it is clearly shows that the 2.3 Gingerbread still remains most popular Android version with 60% of total. However, the 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich percentage growth from 11% to 16% in this month. For the 2.2 Froyo, it remains at the 15.5%. But the latest 4.1 Jelly Bean still no more than 1% at 0.8 percent. However, the older version continue to decreasing....

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