Social networks are most popular on mobile devices

How we yesterday already reported in the BASE blog is growing the mobile Internet in an unimaginable speed. Today, it continues with a number of interesting numbers from the global mobile market. Today, in particular, we pay the mobile Internet, which has seen a growth of 600% from 2008 to 2009. So, it is not surprising that 2009 about 500 million people have already used the mobile Internet.

How do I use the mobile Internet?

From the chart shows that most access Internet users to your phone to get mobile email. Social networks such as Twitter or Facebook are only in second place. News, mobile search, portals, entertainment, sports, music, videos and weather visit share the rest of the attention.

Social networks are most popular on mobile devices
So the use of social networking apps to 240% increased within one year from 2009 to 2010. Now 200 million people access to with your mobile phone on Facebook. 2010, The use of growth for Twitter is 347%.

Also tablets, especially the iPad, were 2010 a characteristic theme. So, already 3 million tablets have been connected to the mobile Internet. Interesting in the process, that the traffic of tablets was 5 times higher than in traditional smartphones. In the future, tablets will play a decisive role. 57% Of consumers plan to buy a tablet or E-reader over the next 3 years. 90% of those planning to use the mobile Internet.

Mobile video playback
The largest markets for mobile video and TV stream are the United States, Japan and Italy.  Here are videos 69% of traffic is. 100 Million videos on mobile phones to play every day. 2009 was a successful year for video streaming, 178 million Americans were watching television on their smartphones. 33 Billion shipments were streamed.

Apps, apps, apps
Predictions to result be 2011 mobile phone applications (hereinafter: apps) provide a turnover of $ 15 billion. These are about 10 billion over 2010. It anticipates 17 billion downloaded apps in 2011. So, 30 million a day apps are loaded, so 347 apps in the second. In January of this year, Apple has sold its 10.000.000.000 app .

Quo vadis mobile hominis?

End of 2011, it is predicted that half of the US population with a Smartphone will be equipped.2013 , the user brand is broken by One billion mobile Web users .2014 76 billion apps are downloaded with a total value of 35 billion dollars. 2014 are over half a billion people access mobile video content and revenues of $ 16 billion cause. 2015 are 500 million people health apps for smartphones use. 2020 the main Internet connection to be mobile.

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