Tag: Smartphone Usage

In the Nordics, smartphones have become more widespread than laptops. Owning a smartphone is changing even how Nordic consumers interact with banks, but they have also given life to new ways of payments. This has brought Nordic countries to the rise of mobile wallets, although mobile wallets are not a new phenomenon, in the last …

Nowadays mobile devices have become the most important tool in people’s daily life for communication. Older generation mobile phones did not offer many capabilities to the user more than passive communications, smartphones then came into play and increasingly provided intelligent assistance to the user in their everyday activities. In addition to the mobile operating system …

A second screen is an activity of using a computing device -regularly a mobile device-, such as a smartphone or tablet to provide an enhanced viewing experience for content on another device, such as a television. The term regularly refers to the use of such devices to provide interactive features during broadcast content, such as …

In 2017, holiday shopping season accounts for more than $1 trillion and more than one-quarter of annual US retail sales. Expectations of online spending also exceed those of in-store spending for the first time (51% vs. 42% of shopping budget), after reaching parity in 2016. In terms of the devices used during the holiday shopping journey in …

In 2016, there were 2.3 billion smartphone users globally which equal 31% of the total population. At the end of 2016, 2.8 billion smartphones were in use in addition to 260 million tablets. Samsung is the leading smartphone manufacturer with 859 million of all smartphones in use globally with a rate of 31%. Apple ranked …

Almost all new generations are “netizen”; depending mainly on the internet in all their lives aspects. Smartphones are the key device for accessing the internet. Roughly 9 in 10 of internet users around the whole world – who aged 16-20 years old and called as “Gen Z” – own a smartphone. Most of them are …

India holds the first line of most countries affected by spam calls in 2017 with a Truecaller user receiving an average of 22.6 spam calls per month. Operator calls grabbed more than half of spam calls in India (54%), followed by nuisance calls with a rate of 20% and then telemarketing calls with 13%. Financial …

Smartphone dominates the usage of other popular devices – such as computers/laptops and tablets – with a rate of 55%. That led to an increase in the use of mobile apps. 28% of mobile users in the US use mobile apps for banking, while 25% use them for travel. On the other side, social media is …