5 Mobile Stats You Need to Know
Mobile is on the rise. Here are five solid statistics sure to persuade any non-believer:
- As of 2010, more mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs.
- By 2013, mobile will overtake PCs for worldwide web access.
- Global mobile data traffic is almost tripling every year.
- Android is the most dominant U.S. smartphone operarting system with over 50 percent of the market.
- Over 40 percent of U.S. cell owners have smartphones.
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Extra Credit:
- Typical smartphone usage in the U.S. is about 80 minutes a day.
- Roughly one-third of Facebook global posts are from mobile devices.
- More than half of Twitter's global traffic is from mobile.
Sources:
- Smartphone Shipments Surpass PCs for First Time. What's Next?
- Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013
- Cisco Visualizing Networking Idex: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forcast Udate, 2010- 2015
- Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices Grew 5.6 Percent in Third Quarter of 2011
- Smartphone Adoption and Usage
- Mobile Apps Put the Web in Their Rear-view Mirror
- KPCB Internet Trends
- KPCB Internet Trends
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