App store New Year resolution…

…lose some weight and get a better tape measure…
Don’t get me wrong, I love apps. They have done much to accelerate the uptake and advancement of smartphones which in turn continually improves mobile web browsing capabilities – hurrah! Apps are starting to shake up the whole industry – they are creating a strong device lock-in [...]

How important are Smartphones and which matters most?

The research firm NPD Group have just announced a new survey that shows smartphone sales in the USA grew by 47% in Q2 and accounted for 28% of all handset sales. That’s a number big enough to make anyone selling to mobile take note – it’s more than a quarter of all your customers. And [...]

Will Smartphones come to dominate the mobile web?

It’s interesting to see a recent consumer study of US mobile phone users which shows that 18.9% of mobile consumers now use a smartphone. However, this research, conducted by The Kelsey Group with research partner ConStat and reported in Mobile Marketer, is at odds with Gartner research which reveals that in Q2 2008, 10.5% of all phones sold worldwide was a [...]