The adoption of smartphones and tablets is resulting in consumers spending less time with dedicated devices... but most people still turn to standalone equipment on occasions.
Research from the Consumer Electronics Association in the USA shows that portable game consoles, satellite navigation devices and e-book readers are most likely to be discarded first.
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Categories: Applications, News
Tags: research, smartphone, tablet, camera, internet, browser, video, music, e-book, location
There’ll be 1.4 billion mobile devices with HTML5-compatible web browsers at the end of this year, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
That would represent an annual increase of 87%.
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Podcast - 20th February 2013
We start this week's podcast with financial results from EE - along with new phones from LG and HTC.
There's also a merger between mobile browser companies, mobile security from Vodafone, free WiFi from Barclays bank, a preview of Ubuntu for smartphones... and much more.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, ee, uk, lg, htc, smartphone, wifi, barclays, browser, opera, security, vodafone, ubuntu, iphone, apple, research
Opera Software, best known for its PC and mobile web browsers, has acquired California-based rival Skyfire Labs.
Skyfire offers consumers a mobile browser that can handle Flash Video and a variety of other video formats. In addition, its ‘Rocket Optimizer’ software can be used by mobile operators to reduce the size of video and other multimedia material when mobile bandwidth is under demand.
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Causing HTC a serious headache
James Rosewell writes:
During December 2012 in the United States the HTC Evo 4G contributed 20% of web traffic from HTC devices. What is remarkable about this figure is that the HTC Evo 4G was first released in June 2010 and is almost three years old.
The HTC One series of devices were released during 2012 and contributed less than 10% of HTC’s web traffic in the same month.
Are HTC devices released pre-2012 too good at browsing the web?
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