We hear mobile internet is growing fast. We hear iPhone users are driving this. Mobile advertising is another area where numbers for iPhone are huge, or so every one says. Hold it. Enter new studies. Wireless week just wrote about a new study by Chitika, a US-based online advertsing firm, points to really low CTR, [...]
According to both anecdotal evidence and more fact based industry sources it seems like many mobile operators put high hopes to smartphones as the way out of the recession. Why? How? My thinking is that mobile calls, sms and mobile internet is a “must have”. A new cool handset is still “nice to have” items. [...]
I think today might have been what will be seen as a milestone in hindsight. Apple releasing a 3G, GPS enabled iPhone at a price that is way below the current smartphone price point – 199 USD as opposed to what…3,4,5,600 USD?. The fact that the phone is now going to be launched in 70 [...]