Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- Mobile WiMAX will grab 8% of mobile broadband market by 2012
- Handset sales to reach 1.15B this year
- More than 80% of respondents with handsets that have the ability to play MP3 tracks rarely, if ever, use this feature
- US businesses to spend $9B on mobile applications by 2011
- 82M converged mobile devices to ship in 2011
- 365M smartphones to ship in 2012
- Touch screen sales to double by 2012
- Mobile gaming to reach nearly $10B by 2011
- Nearly half of consumers want WiMax for e-mail
- Femtocell subs to exceed 150M by 2012
- $32B in mobile phone accessory sales in 2007
- Off-portal premium SMS reached $250M in 1Q07
- European M2M market to reach $19.2B by 2011
- 50M combo WiFi/cellular phones supporting SIP to ship by 2011
- $120B in cameraphone sales by 2011
- $9B in mobile business apps by 2011
- Mobile video revenues tripled year-over-year in 1Q07