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ExclusiveA review of the mobile phone industry in 2011

In today’s podcast feature we’re taking a look back at the mobile industry’s biggest news stories of 2011.

As well as revisiting Apple’s emotional year, we discuss the Nokia & Microsoft partnership, Android’s growth, Samsung’s sales, RIM’s disappointments and LG’s 3D products… along with the Amazon Kindle, mobile payments and patent disputes.

ExclusivePodcast - 6th January 2012

Iain, James and Mark take a look back at the mobile industry's high points and low spots from 2011. Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung and RIM all come under the spotlight, along with legal action, mobile payments and tablet sales.

ExclusiveMobile coupon redemption rates expected to be 8 times better than paper coupons

A new report from Juniper Research expects the redemption rate of mobile coupons to average at over 8% by 2016. That’s an eight-fold increase over the best paper coupons campaigns.

It means there’ll be over 600 million regular mobile coupon users worldwide in four years’ time, with the total redemption value expected to exceed $43 billion (£27.5 billion) by 2016.

ExclusiveApple iPad reaches three billion app downloads

ABI Research estimates that Apple iPad users have downloaded a total of three billion applications since the tablet was launched in April 2010. This is almost a fifth of all downloads by Apple users - and has happened several months faster than the iPhone took to reach the same figure.

There are currently thought to be over 120,000 apps available specifically for the iPad.

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