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 ..
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 tec..
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 t..
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 v..
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, sug..
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 t..
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 maintainin..
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