An ABI Research survey in the USA has revealed that 53% of smartphone users say they already have or soon will use their handsets for mobile banking. In addition, almost half of smartphone users say they have or plan to use their phones to do mobile shopping.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.
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Research from social and search agency Tamar suggests that 19% of UK consumers will use mobile devices to shop at Christmas this year.
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Advertising and marketing website BrandRepublic has just published the results of a new survey from Lightspeed Research about mobile location services and voucher applications.
It contacted 1,001 UK smartphone owners and found that around a fifth had downloaded a voucher application to their phone.
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Businesses need to take inspiration from the mobile gambling industry. That was one of the messages from this morning's Definition of Mobile event, which was hosted by Steve Dobson in Leeds.
In an exclusive interview, Steve talks to James Rosewell about the event's aims and its achievements – from making business "futureproof" to warning against becoming too "Apple happy".
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