Stats: 2005

Friday, December 30, 2005

Razr owners that download mobile apps/content

50 Percent of Sanyo SCP-8200 owners and 48 Percent of RAZR Owners Used Mobile Applications or Downloaded Mobile Content in November

Interesting stats on this link:

http://www.mmetrics.com/press/PressRelease.aspx?article=20051227-deviceconversion

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Camera phones stats

Worldwide sales of camera phones will reach 295.5 million in 2005, according to Gartner Inc. This represents 38 percent of total worldwide mobile phone sales, up from 14 percent in 2004.

In Japan where camera phones account for nearly 92 percent of total mobile phone sales, over 78 percent of models sold in 2005 will have one or two megapixels. Gartner estimates that by 2009, almost 50 percent of camera phones sold in Japan will have more than three megapixels.

Outside of these more advanced markets, Gartner believes that 1.3 megapixels is now the minimum standard that will be supplied with a high-end phone with two megapixel models starting to come into the market and becoming more widespread in 2006.

http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_140794_11.html

Mobile phone users U.S and Worldwide

There are an estimated 2 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide and 194.5 million in the United States, according to the Washington, D.C.-based CTIA The Wireless Association.

Target Market

About 130 million Americans own cell phones with camera capabilities and approximately half of those camera phones also shoot video, said Roger Entner, an analyst with Ovum, a Boston-based technology consulting firm.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Monday, November 21, 2005

Top Selling mobiles in the US - Stats Oct 2005

Online retailer Wirefly released the top ten handsets (according to its sales) for last month. Seven of the ten have cameras and eight of the ten are Motorola handsets.

1. Motorola RAZR V3
2. Motorola E815
3. Samsung PM-A740
4. Motorola V330
5. Audiovox 8910
6. Motorola V220
7. Motorola i850
8. Motorola i710
9. Motorola V188
10. Motorola V260

Amazon.com's top selling list is somewhat inline with six of the top ten being Motorolas. Global sales leader Nokia is not on either site's top ten

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Japanese heavy mobile internet users statistics

The inormation below is from: http://seronchousa.blogspot.com/2005/10/japanese-heavy-mobile-internet-users.html

Q1: Tell me how often you access sites from your mobile phone
All Male Female
About every day 73.8% 76.7% 72.5%
Four or five days a week 10.4% 9.4% 10.9%
Two or three days a week 10.9% 9.5% 11.6%
About one day a week 3.1% 3.1% 3.2%
Less than that 1.6% 1.3% 1.8%

Not surprisingly, the younger the user, the more frequently they accessed.
Q2: Are you on a flat-rate packet plan? (ie, unlimited internet access)
All Male Female
My phone supports it, and I'm using it 58.0% 59.9% 57.1%
My phone supports it, but I'm not on it, but want to change to it 12.3% 11.5% 12.7%
My phone supports it, but I'm not on it, and won't change to it 5.9% 6.2% 5.8%
My phone doesn't support it, but want to change to one that does 20.8% 19.4% 21.6%
My phone doesn't support it, and won't change to one that does 2.9% 3.0% 2.9%

Breaking down the table in Q1 by usage of inlimited access plans, we get:
Unlimited access users Not unlimited access users
About every day 85.7% 57.5%
Four or five days a week 6.8% 15.5%
Two or three days a week 5.5% 18.4%
About one day a week 1.3% 5.7%
Less than once a week 0.7% 3.0%
Q3: For unlimited access user, compared with before you started the service, what has increased? (Sample size=9,764; Multiple answer)
All Male Female
Site Access Frequency 87.4% 89.7% 86.2%
Time spent at a particular site 60.0% 62.2% 58.9%
Number of games downloaded 29.0% 32.7% 27.1%
Number of non-game applets downloaded 20.1% 25.0% 17.7%
Number of ring tones downloaded 45.6% 46.5% 45.1%
Number of pay sites registered with 12.5% 12.6% 12.4%
Number of mails sent and received 36.9% 37.2% 36.8%
Number of times done shopping from mobile 14.3% 9.8% 16.7%
No change in particular 4.0% 3.3% 4.3%

The age breakdown has a couple of interesting spikes - ring tone download for teenagers is almost 50% more the next age group, and mail usage is about 25% to 30% higher for them too.
Q3A: For not unlimited access user, compared with before you started the service, what do you think might increase? (Sample size=7,069; Multiple answer)
All Male Female
Site Access Frequency 66.9% 63.6% 68.4%
Time spent at a particular site 35.6% 34.8% 36.0%
Number of games downloaded 29.7% 32.9% 28.2%
Number of non-game applets downloaded 17.6% 20.6% 16.3%
Number of ring tones downloaded 41.2% 36.8% 43.2%
Number of pay sites registered with 7.9% 7.5% 8.1%
Number of mails sent and received 26.0% 23.6% 27.1%
Number of times done shopping from mobile 9.8% 6.9% 11.2%
No change in particular 12.1% 15.2% 10.8%

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Teen Demographics: Blogging etc. a very good report

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Content_Creation.pdf

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

NTT DoCoMo's imode world's largest internet service provider

The least undestood of the seven media is the youngest, mobile phone, which became a media channel only six years ago when NTT DoCoMo first launched its revolutionary i-Mode service in 1999. i-Mode has in its very short life, as regular readers of this blog know, become the world's largest internet service provider, ie bigger than AOL, Yahoo, etc by paying subscribers, by revenues and by profits.

Ringtone download demographics

The latest report from Telephia has found that women bought 69% of ringtones (by revenue) in the third quarter of 2005… “Overall, more than nine percent of the wireless population purchased a ringtone during the last quarter.”There’s also a skew towards youth buying ringtones, which is completely expected. The graph is below…

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Sprint PCS Data Plan, Wireless Web Services Q3 2004

At the end of the third quarter of 2004:

* 42 percent of Sprint subscribers had signed up for PCS Vision or Wireless Web services

* There were almost 7.3 million PCS Vision and Wireless Web subscribers, compared to 6.09 million at the end of the second quarter of 2004

* Data revenues represented eight percent of the overall monthly revenues (ARPU - Average Revenue Per User) for annual revenues to Sprint of $1 billion

* Since Sprint started picture messaging in August 2002, more than 270 million photos and videos have been transmited.

Blogs being created everyday

Growth rate and total number of blogs

Flickr moblogging analysis

Launched: July 06, 2004 i.e. 15 months
Userbase: 250,000 using this service (previous post on this blog
Supports: Livejournal, blogger, typepad, movabletype
Technology: email/MMS to flickr (No Client)
Advantages: Already established brandname; Huge existing userbase; a yahoo company thus loads of money.

=> Moblogging is popular and people like to do it

500 Million Camera Phones in 2005

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008669.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051029/tc_cmp/172901485

The latest forecast from Future Image Inc. means that 5 out of every 6 digital cameras sold this year would be embedded in phones. The buying spree is expected to continue at least through 2009, when camera-phone sales are expected to rise to 900 million units, or 90 percent of the 1 billion mobile phones projected to be sold that year, the research firm said in a statement.

Text America , Moblogging, Yafro, Buzznet, Mobog

http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/nov/04spec.htm

Little wonder the user base of popular moblog sites such as Text America (latest available figure: 500,000), Flickr (250,000), Yafro (100,000), Buzznet (20,000) and Mobog (16,000) is growing exponentially. The big daddy of them all, MSN Spaces, has more than 1.5 million users, but not all of them are mobloggers.

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