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
Monday, November 21, 2005
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%
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.
* 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Picostation
Picostation stats, its on their front page http://www.picostation.com/
MOBLOG METRICS
Users - 2103
Posts - 10064
Images - 8893
Videos - 485
Audios - 264
MOBLOG METRICS
Users - 2103
Posts - 10064
Images - 8893
Videos - 485
Audios - 264
Mobile content is the fastest growing market in the world, presently $80 billion
http://www.motricity.com/pdf/fuel/fuel_overview.pdf
Mobile users in the US by Carrier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators
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