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Microsoft Tag has just released a neat infographic highlighting statistics on how people are using mobile phones in 2011. I also dug up a great video that featured late last year with an array of great mobile “growth” statistics, stats and facts for 2011.
The infographic shows that over 1 billion of the worlds 4+ billion mobiles phones are now smartphones, and 3 billion are SMS enabled (weirdly, 950 million mobile phones still don’t have SMS capabilities). In 2014, mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage and already in 2011, more than 50% of all “local” searches are done from a mobile device.
86% of mobile users are watching TV while using a mobile phone, 200+ million (1/3 of all users) access Facebook from a mobile device and 91% of all mobile internet use is “social” related.
A few of the key take outs from the video is that over 70% of the worlds population now have a mobile phone, that’s over 5 billion mobile subscribers, and in places like the US, it’s 9 in 10 people. With children now more likely to own a mobile phone than a book, with 85% of kids owning a phone as to 73% having books! Now that’s a pretty crazy statistic.
Apple has sold almost 60 million iPhones world wide, while Google’s Android OS is growing at 886% year on year and now activating over 160,000 devices a day, across 60 devices in over 40 countries. And at that rate, Android will come from behind to over take Apple as the leading smart phone OS in 2011.
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April 4th, 2011 at 3:24 am
I’m betting Google Android adoption will slow dramatically with their new carrier requirements:
http://gadgetsteria.com/2011/04/02/the-closed-future-of-android/
April 5th, 2011 at 1:16 am
Does the 2.7 hours socializing include calling?
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:41 am
Really appreciate the stats, figures, – I had a firsthand experience that blew my mind in Manhattan that crystallized the power of smart phones – see: http://TimDarnell.org for short story – epiphany in Manhattan…
October 28th, 2011 at 2:36 am
When you say you “dug” something up, it makes you incredibly less credible when you use the name “doug”. You loose all crediblity.
December 10th, 2011 at 5:19 am
Hey, Josh.
When you are trying to tell someone that they “lose” all credibility, you should spell lose correctly. Especially when it was a spelling mistake that you are calling out.
You “lose,” Josh. But I’m sure you’re Mom’s “loose.”
January 8th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Great article and very informative infographics. Having only just found it, I’d be interested to know if there is some more up-to-date data available.
March 27th, 2012 at 2:38 am
I’m surprised there are only 1 billion smart phones. It’s exciting to see that local searches are more prevalent on mobile devices though.
April 24th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Half of all local searches are done via mobile? Can you provide references to confirm this claim? I am not sure if mobile is really this far… Good post though. Cheers, Christian