Found under: iOS, iPhone, iPad, Social, Entertainment, Books, Movies, Music, TV Shows, GetGlue is a social network for movies tv shows music and books which will help you find your next favorite thing. Check-in and rate things to discover new favorites see what your friends are into get stickers and win free stuff. The GetGlue mobile app enables users to check-in to tv shows movies music and books plus see what their friends are consuming in real-time. On GetGlue.com users can quickly build up their taste profile get fresh suggestions every week browse top lists and finRead MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: Verizon, BlackBerry, Update, Bold, Curve, Tour, , Before you get too excited about this following Verizon BlackBerry update that the Bold 9650 Curve 8530 and Tour 9630 are about to get Ill tell you that Big Red is not getting ready to bring BlackBerry OS 6 to these handsets. But an update is coming so get your handset ready in case you own one of these three babies from Verizon. The new firmware is rather a maintenance update that will bring more stability to these BlackBerry handsets deal with some of the spotted bugs and increaseRead MoreRead more in mobile format
If you think you see people never letting go of their mobile phones, you aren't imagining things. The latest report from Nielsen shows that the average teen in the US is now sending and/or receiving 3,339 text messages every month.
That breaks down to around 111 texts a day, or about one text message every 15 minutes. It's pretty astounding that this is the *average* of every single teenager in the US with a cell phone.
Female users edged out their male counterparts, as the average female teen was reported to exchange 4,050 texts every month. The number is only 2,539 for males.
Interestingly, though actually not surprising at all, the usage of voice features on mobile phones is decreasing. The average teen now spends just 646 minutes talking on their phone, a 14% decrease from last year. Everyone is spending more time texting and less time talking.
In fact, actually using their phone as a phone was the only thing people are doing less. More teens are sending pictures messages and taking their mobile online. Nearly half of all teenagers now actively connect to the Internet from their phone.
In this metric, male users are leading. They use 75 MB of mobile data per month, on average, while female teens are only downloading 53 MB. Both of those numbers are gargantuan jumps from the same time last year, though, where the average teen was only using between 11 MB and 17 MB of data.
Teenagers that Nielsen polled said they preferred texting to talking because it was easier, faster, and more fun. Of course it also makes those teen things - like talking to someone you have a crush on, or letting your parents know you'll be out late - less intimidating.
Texting was ranked by teens as the most important reason to own a phone, with 43% making that assertion. 35% said that safety was the most important, and 34% said it was "keeping in touch with friends."
Found under: Symbian, Advanced Call Manager, Application, , Today were featuring another free application for you as long as you have a Symbian 3rd or 5th Edition smartphone close by. Advanced Call Manager is a Symbian application available in the store free of charge and once you download it youll be able to better manage your whole cell phone experience.Instead of answering or rejecting a phone call you will now be able to take advantage of a lot of other options when not being able to answer important or annoying calls. Advanced Call MaRead MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: Verizon, Palm Pre 2, Palm, HP, , HP and Palm are cooking some new webOS devices at least a tablet and a smartphone and while theres nothing really official about either of them were definitely expecting some new hardware at some point in the following months. The Palm Pre 2 is apparently one of the new webOS handsets coming out. The device is said to be pretty similar to its predecessor the original Pre only this time around the first carrier rumored to launch it is not former Palm partner Sprint but SprintsRead MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: Best Buy, Android, Windows Phone 7, Smartphones, AT&T, Verizon, , According to a recent leak it seems that Best Buy is getting ready to launch four new smartphones in the following weeks three of which are Android-powered while the fourth is a Windows Phone 7 device.I am talking about the white Samsung Fascinate which will be available bundled with Verizon plans and the white Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 the HTC Surround and the Dell Streak which are all going to be sold with ATT plans. These are all new devices coming to Best Buy but otherwisRead MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, Copy, Paste, Multitasking, , Windows Phone 7 has been recently made official and we have already seen plenty of handsets scheduled to arrive in the U.S. from T-Mobile the Dell Venue Pro and the HTC HD7 and from ATT the LG Quantum the HTC Surround and the Samsung Focus. But Windows Phone 7 will lack certain features at launch and current smartphone owners switching from Android or iOS to Windows Phone 7 will not appreciate not having the Copy and Paste feature or multitasking enabled on this WP7 handsets. Read MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: AT&T, Smartphone, Upgrade, Program, It seems that ATT definitely doesnt like to be the most popular carrier on the block. The company has decided for whatever reason to modify its early smartphone upgrade policy. And the carrier will change it in a way we the consumers will not appreciate. Instead of the previous 75 fee you will now have to pay no less than 200 125 more than before to be eligible for an early upgrade. That means youll either have to wait for your current 2-year contract with ATT to end or gRead MoreRead more in mobile format
Found under: Adobe, Air, Flash, Google, Android Market, , Adobe and Google are taking their partnership to the next level today as Adobes AIR for Android is now available in the Android Market. Youre certainly familiar with Adobe AIR and if you love the Android mobile environment then youll know that with this important arrival to the Android Market well be in for a plethora of apps and games based on Adobes AIR and created for Android handsets. In fact we can pretty much expect developers that are familiar with AIR to create various appRead MoreRead more in mobile format
THE INQUIRER Opinion THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM in the IT industry press expresses cautious optimism about the prospects for Microsoft's latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7).