[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKAIzU90zA8[/youtube]
The video clip above shows it as well and clearly as possible everything that happened this year in the field of mobile terminals. We have come to have as powerful hardware in smartphones and tablets as in laptops, we have come to buy more smartphones and tablets than PCs and use them for a variety of tasks. In the US there are more mobile phone subscriptions than legally registered citizens and that says a lot about a country with over 300 million citizens. Billions of applications are downloaded every month and most of us use Facebook and Twitter on the phone as much as on a PC and next year things will not change.
Below is a text summary of the clip, but I recommend you watch it:
- ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month
- $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers
- 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone
- 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day
- ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins
- 26 PHOTOS were made "hipstery" on Instagram every second
- EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent – up 1.1 trillion from last year
- 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on US networks predicted in just four years
- MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States
- MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people
- TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015
- 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone
