Tag: Smartphone Use

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 …

For many consumers across South Africa, the mobile devices is not just a communication device but also the primary channel for them to get online and to access various life-enhancing services. The latest study launched by Deloitte on the South African mobile market revealed that the year 2017 was a significant turning point in the …

The Mobile-Only internet users are defined as those who only access the internet via a smartphone or feature phone. They represent 16% of the global online population. GlobalWebIndex dug deeper into this segment in a way to define their characteristics and behaviors that make them unique. Hence the findings came to say the following insights into …

The latest generation of smartphones comes with a bunch of apps to get users to start, from email and photography to navigation, weather and video-calling services. Take a glance at the most used type of apps by the Arab region smartphone users: Social media applications are the most used type of apps used by Arab smartphone …

USA adults are more likely to use the voice assistant in their smartphones over the one in their smart speakers when at home, they won’t shift voice assistant usage toward smart speakers until these home bound devices develop more unique use cases. As tech companies aim to make lives easier, our devices are armed with …

Today’s teens are coming of age in an era when smartphone usage pervades daily life. Thus, one cannot understand teens without grasping how smartphones define the ways they get entertainment, communicate with each other. A majority of teens now have a smartphone. Many declare they could not go more than a single day without using …