Smartphone adoption is growing and so is the adoption of newer smartphone platforms like iOS and Android. Not surprisingly, older platforms like Symbian and Windows Mobile are not as popular as they once were, though in market share terms, they still rule the roost. Comscore has published their results (July 2010) for the smartphone platform [...]

The last two years has seen a terrific rise in the number of app stores in the market. Today, almost all the mobile platform developers own their own mobile app store. While not all of these platforms may be as successful as the iPhone App Store or the Android market place, there is no denying [...]

A new study by Comscore MobiLens shows that the use of mapping applications on mobile phones grew 44% in the year between April 2009 and April 2010. In just the three months between January and April 2010, close to 33.5 million mobile phone users in the US accessed a map application from their mobile phones. [...]

Smartphone usage – and consequently mobile app usage – are on the rise. According to a study by MobiLens, the number of mobile app users in the United States grew by 28% between April 2009 and April 2010. As more people jump into the smartphone bandwagon, their internet-based social networking habits tend to extend to [...]

Social networking is a huge phenomenon and the always-on connectivity offered by smartphones has only accelerated the trend. According to a recent study conducted by Nielsen Research, Facebook has been found to be the most popular among used applications across a variety of smartphones including iPhone and Blackberry. The only app that is more used [...]

Yesterday, Twitter announced an official client for Android devices. Too bad, it only worked on Android 2.1 devices. That means, only 27.3% of Android handsets can actually access the official Twitter client. With Android 2.2 expected to launch sometime in the latter half of this year, expect the fragmentation problem to grow even further. Here [...]

According to a ComScore MobiLens survey, the number of mobile maps and direction users has increased by over 68% in the past one year across Europe. In February this year alone, close to 21 million users over the age of 13 made use of these services. Compare the number to the 12 million odd people [...]

Perhaps these are early days for the iPad and hence this study might not hold true for a long time and I hope to revisit this in a few more months. However, with the hype surrounding Apple’s new device, it will be interesting to see how many app developers are sold out on this concept [...]

In a study published earlier this year, Gartner predicted that the mobile apps to grow to a $30 billion market globally by 2013. That was against a yearly download of an estimated 21.6 billion applications. However, FutureSource consulting in their recent study published have been less optimistic. According to them, the mobile app market would [...]

Google Android is regarded to be the closest rival to the iPhone OS and is seen as the platform that will eventually take on the mantle from the iPhone. The number of third party apps on this platform is thus a matter of high interest. AndroLib, the popular destination for Android Apps has a database [...]