Flurry, an analytics company, has released a ton of information recently collected from smartphones of both the Android and iOS persuasion. This data revealed how people were spending their time using their smartphones, and for how long. And shockingly, people used their phones 2 hours and 38 minutes a day on average. The biggest use of time has been… Read more
Every time we see statistics about the mobile world, they’re a bit different. Even in the same month, two different reports will have two sets of information. However, comScore seems to be the standard these days, and their numbers for the three month period ending in January are up. As you can see, Android took a small hit while iOS is still growing at… Read more
A study was conducted on the top 50 free iOS and Android apps, gauging what data they transmit and how invasive they are. The results are shocking, as iOS apps seem to be much more invasive than their Android counterparts. Surprisingly, iOS apps actually transfer more personal data than Android apps. Yes, Android has a bad rep for malware, and this… Read more
Skype is advertising a new feature lately called video messaging. Unlike video calling, video messaging is recording videos (up to three minutes long) and sending them to a person. So it is to video calling what texting is to instant messaging. It’s a pretty good idea, a more personal way of talking to someone when both parties can’t sit down for a long… Read more
The December 3 month period comScore numbers and in, and it’s more of the same thing. In the software part of it, Android rose 0.9 points to 53.4%, while iOS rose a whole 2 points to 36.3%. Blackberry dropped 2 points, but that might very well change in the next few months. Sadly, Windows Phone dropped 0.7 points to only 2.9%. Symbian stayed constant at… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qPMIQobB3ZM For all you Temple Run fanatics, we have some good news and some (almost nonexistent) bad news. The good news is that Temple Run 2 has been released! Building on the simple gameplay of the original, it improves on it with new graphics, more gameplay elements, new upgrades, and more… Read more
The statistics for the three month period ending in November were released today by comScore. While nothing much has changed, the gap between the duopoly of Samsung and Apple and the other three in the top five is growing fast. Samsung grew 1.2 percentage up to 26.9%, while Apple grew even more to 18.5%, up 1.4 points. Everyone else has dropped 0.4 to… Read more
This morning iOS users can rejoice as right before midnight last night Google Maps found its way to the iOS app store and has already sealed its spot as the top free app. It’s beautiful, it’s gorgeous and hopefully it won’t get you lost in the Australian wilderness. Here’s the thing that really caught our attention thanks to a David Pogue review from… Read more
comScore has once again released data pertaining to a three month period ending in October, showing us the distribution numbers for both manufacturer and mobile OS. Once again, Samsung is on top at 26.3%. Apple actually jumped ahead of LG to 17.8%, probably due to the iPhone 5 launch. It’s surprising that there wasn’t a bigger boost as other charts have… Read more
According to App Annie, an app analytics company, Google Play’s revenue went up 311% from October 2011 to October 2012, while iOS’s revenues only grew 12.9%. However despite Google Play’s massive revenue growth and it closing in on iOS quickly, iOS’s revenue for the year is still 4 times that of Google Play. Google Play is catching up quick though with… Read more
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