According to a fabulously pointless new survey, users of Android phones are supposedly more likely to have sex on a first date and embark on more one-night stands than owners of other smartphones.
Market research firm Nielsen has published the findings of its month-long study to find out the most-used apps on the Android platform.
New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.
No, it’s not email, Facebook or even Twitter. It’s actually good ol’ SMS text messaging.
There’s over 4.2 billion people texting worldwide, with 6.1 trillion SMS messages sent in 2010 – working out at 193,430 texts per second.
And that’s a lorra lorra data.
Scroll down for a natty infographic, and click on the image for a bigger graphic.
Halesworth is a pretty market town in the northeastern corner of Suffolk, boasting the largest Millennium Green in the UK and rivers stuffed full of herons, kingfishers, otters and all sorts of wildlife shizzle. But all is not well.
It was pretty much inevitable, but now it’s been confirmed: smartphones are officially out-shipping feature phones in Europe.
A study by stat-juggling spods comScore has found that Google Android remains on an unstoppable trajectory in the States, with their smartphone market share reaching 41.8 per cent – a huge rise from the 36.4 per cent share it held in April this year.
The number of stinky vehicles burning up non-renewable resurces on the roads across the world has now passed the 1 billion-unit mark, according to research from WardsAuto.
More and more folks may be strutting the streets toting fancypants, app-stuffed smartphones, but when it comes to using the thing, old-fashioned text messaging is still the most popular application for US users.
As smartphones explode in popularity, ne’er do wells, virtual footpads and mobile garrotters continue to try and find ways to pickpocket your phone and purloin your precious data.
Recent reports from Nielsen, Strategy Analytics and IDC all placed Apple at the top of global smartphone vendor list, based on their second-quarter smartphone sales, but UK based stats firm Gartner is having none of it, declaring Symbian to the sultans of smartphone sales.
The busy folks at Geekaphone – an online resource for the mobile industry – have been ticking boxes, totting up totals and compiling lists, with the results being slapped together in a neat infographic.
The dual core Samsung Galaxy S II continues to be Britain’s most popular smartphone, once again outselling the Apple iPhone 4, according to new figures from uSwitch Mobile Tracker.
Despite Apple’s efforts to block the growth of rival tablets and Android App Stores with yet more of its dubious patent trolling, the Android platform continues to go from strength to strength, capturing nearly half of the worldwide smart phone market
A new Ofcom study has found that average broadband speeds in the UK are on the up, enjoying a 10 per cent rise since the end of 2010.
Their study found that average broadband speeds around the UK registered 6.8Mbit/s in May 2011 compared to the leisurely 6.2Mbit/s recorded in November/December last year.
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