Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends…
March 2011: The essential compendium of need-to-know statistics. Beware of media hype and mobile myth – put your mobile strategy on a sound footing with the latest research from credible independent experts. Global mobile subscribers, handset sales, mobile Web usage, mobile apps, mobile ad spend, top mobile operators and mobile financial services.
LATEST UPDATE (March, 2010): Adds: forecasts for smartphone operating share. Android booms as Nokia dumps Symbian.
UPDATE (February, 2011): Reorganizes categories and adds: 1) mobile phone and smartphone sales figures for 2010 - Nokia still dominant in both, but other vendors are gradually eating into its lead; 2) top three mobile phone brands in US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy; plus smartphone penetration 3) when profits will run out for mobile operators; 4) How mobile subscribers use their phones, plus how the mobile app didn’t kill the mobile Web; 5) payment by phone in Japan; 6) eBay’s $2 billion in m-commerce; 7) 200 million mobile users of Facebook; 8) mobile apps - downloads, average prices and failure rates.
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