Stat Spot
CategoryStat Spot: Smartphone market growth
75.5%
…growth in the worldwide smartphone market from H1 2005 to H1 2006. Unit shipments grew to 34.7m, with Japan over-taking EMEA to become the the world’s largest market, representing 33 percent of all smartphones sold. Source: Gartner.
Stat Spot: Japanese mobile payment brands
4
…Japanese mobile payment systems will share the same point-of-sale terminal as local players combine to expedite the rollout of technology in the retail environment. JR East, NTT DoCoMo, JCB and bitWallet will collaborate to develop a sing…
Stat Spot: Osaifu-Keitai handset penetration
13m+
…Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet handsets among DoCoMo’s customer base of 55m Japanese subscribers. DoCoMo uses Felica contacless technology for payments, ticketing, ID and other services. Source: NTT DoCoMo.
Stat Spot: SanDisk V-Mate video recording
3.5hrs
…of video recording per Gb of storage using SanDisk’s new V-Mate set-top box, which allows customers to capture content from virtually any video source and store it on memory cards for viewing on mobile devices. Source: SanDisk.
Stat Spot: Japanese blogging
55.4%
…of Japanese bloggers surveyed by Technorati and Edelman have never been contacted by the companies they’re blogging about, suggesting their PR representatives need to do more to keep the press up-to-date with developments. This will b…
Stat Spot: Satisfaction relative to handset price
$300
Customers in the US paying more than USD 300 for their handset are the most likely to be satisfied with their purchase according to data from M:Metrics. PMN asked M:Metrics to rank handset satisfaction on a 10 point scale according to the…
Stat Spot: Q2 mobile phone shipments
229m
…mobile phones were shipped in Q2 of 2006 according to Gartner. While this was slightly down on Q1, Gartner is still maintaining its forecast of 960m units for calendar 2006, 238m of which will be sold in Q3. Motorola was the biggest m…
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