50 stunning mobile statistics

STUNNING MOBILESTATISTICS

The Past, Present, And Future Outlook Of Mobility

@ValaAfshar, @akafel

The first transistor was invented at Bell Laboratories in

1947.

http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestone_1947b.html

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In 1959, the microchip brought us the rise of the

“smaller but more powerful.”

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1959-Noyce.html

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Today’s average mobile phone is more powerful than the PCs that sent two astronauts to the moon in 1969.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/diypodcast/rocket-evolution-index-diy.html

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The Intel 4004 processor held 2,300 transistors in 1971.

The Xbox One chip holds

5 billion in 2013.

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The first mobile phone call was placed in 1973.

http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm

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First commercial cellular network was launched by NTT in Japan in 1979.

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First multinational cellular network was the Nordic Mobile Telephony in 1981.

It even supported roaming.

http://bit.ly/1bppx7F

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Motorola introduced the first commercial mobile phone in the US in 1983.

The DynaTAC 800X was retailed at $3,995.

http://www.motorola.com/us/Corporate-Motorola-History-Timely-Achievement.html

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DynaTAC 800X had a talk time of 30 minutes and took 10 hours to charge.

http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm

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Though it was not a phone, the BlackBerry 850 was the first

handset released by RIM in 1999.

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Globally, there are 7 billion mobile phones, 1.5 billion are smartphones.

There were just 12 million users 23 years ago.

http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a

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Simon Personal Communicator was the first “smartphone.”

Simon was designed by IBM in 1993 and retailed for $899.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-29/before-iphone-and-android-came-simon-the-first-smartphone

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2002 is known for the birth of the modern smartphone.

RIM shipped its first BlackBerry with phone features.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/427787/are-smart-phones-spreading-faster-than-any-technology-in-human-history/

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But only 715,000smartphones were

sold between 2002 and 2006.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/427787/are-smart-phones-spreading-faster-than-any-technology-in-human-history/

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The iPhone was released in 2007 and sold 1 milliondevices in 74 days.

It took 2 years to sell 1 million iPods.http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/10Apple-Sells-One-Millionth-iPhone.html

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Towards the start of 2013 – there were 6.8 billion phones, but only 3.2 billion

people in the world have them.

Out of 7.1 billion people.

http://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/760890/The_Mobile_Economy_2013.pdf

Smartphones are expected to outsell feature phones this

year for the first time ever.

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2335616

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90% of US employees used their personal device for work purposes in 2013.

http://www.eweek.com/mobile/byod-taking-over-business-but-security-issues-persist/

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http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/10/apple-unveils-64-bit-a7-chip/

The new A7 processor in the iPhone 5s has more than 1 billion transistors and a 64-bit desktop class architecture.

That’s 40x faster than the original iPhone.

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We spend nearly 40% of our Internet time on our mobile devices.

http://marketingland.com/report-nearly-40-percent-of-internet-time-now-on-mobile-devices-34639

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http://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/760890/The_Mobile_Economy_2013.pdf

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1.6 billion phones have Mobile Broadband.

41% of households worldwide are connected to the Internet.

http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFactsFigures2013.pdf

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There were 62 million LTE subscribers in late 2012.

Subscribers grew to 150 million less than a year later.

http://allthingsd.com/20131111/more-than-half-of-mobile-phones-bought-worldwide-were-smartphones-last-quarter/

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More than 38% of US households are wireless-only.

Mobile broadband is creating a wireless-only world.

http://www.ctia.org/your-wireless-life/how-wireless-works/wireless-quick-facts

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34% of mobile Internet subscribers use their phones as their primary Internet device in the US.

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Cell-Internet.aspx

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By the end of 2013, Mobile broadband subscriptions will reach

2.1 billion.

http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/facts/ICTFactsFigures2013.pdf

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There are over 2 million apps at Google Play and Apple’s App Store.

50 billion Apple and 48 billion Google have been downloaded.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/10/how-much-do-average-apps-make/

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Although there are many apps available, 65% of shoppers prefer

the mobile site over the app.

IDG Enterprise Marketing

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Worldwide, mobile app users stood at 1,186 million in at the beginning of 2013.

Expected to reach 4.4B by the end of 2017.

http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/e#appusers

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The majority of enterprises are creating business apps for both consumers (60%)and employees (56%.)

http://www.idgenterprise.com/in-byod-discussions-security-is-key

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80% of consumers plan to participate in mobile commerce within the next year.

A 14% increase from where we are today.

http://www.inmobi.com/inmobiblog/2013/02/27/inmobi-releases-second-wave-of-mobile-media-consumption-survey-global-results/

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47% of users prefer mobile because it’s “easy to use” and “constantly with them.”

28% say it’s a more private way to consume information and communicate.

http://www.inmobi.com/inmobiblog/2013/02/27/inmobi-releases-second-wave-of-mobile-media-consumption-survey-global-results/

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30% of mobile shoppers abandon a transaction if the experience is not optimized for mobile.

http://www.mobify.com/go/50-mobile-commerce-stats/

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For every 100 milliseconds in load time, sales decrease by 1%.

http://www.mobify.com/go/50-mobile-commerce-stats/

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57% of mobile customers will abandon your site if they have to wait 3 seconds for a page to load.

http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2010/press_061410.html

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Smartphone customers spend an average of 115 minutes per week using social networking apps on their device.

http://www.jdpower.com/consumer-ratings/electronics/ratings/809201510/2013-Wireless+Smartphone+Satisfaction+Study/index.htm

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All age groups are using smartphones.

Even 38% of 2-year-olds use mobile devices.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229640

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Mobile phones are projected to consume more mobile data this year than PCs, tablets and other devices.

http://allthingsd.com/20131111/more-than-half-of-mobile-phones-bought-worldwide-were-smartphones-last-quarter/

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Over 147 million people in the US own smartphones.

That’s a 62 % mobile market penetration.

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/11/

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58% of US smartphone users spent most of their time on entertainment apps.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/apps-vs-mobile-web/

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Facebook ranked as the top smartphone app, reaching over 74% of the app audience.

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/11/comScore_Reports_September_2013_U.S._Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share

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Facebook has 1.19 billion active users.

LinkedIn has 259 million andTwitter has 232 million.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/11/07/a-twitter-user-is-worth-110-facebooks-98-linkedins-93/

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The most frequentlyused app in the worldis Google Maps.

Followed by Facebook and YouTube.http://mashable.com/2013/08/05/most-used-smartphone-apps/

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Time it took to reach 50 million users.

Radio – 38 yrs Television – 13 yrs Internet – 4 yrs Facebook – 3.5 yrs Instagram – 6 months Angry Birds – 35 days

http://www.localytics.com/blog/2013/mobile-statistics/

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Tablets will almost out ship all other PC form factors combined.

This will form 50% of the total client PC market.

http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/tablets-make-50-pc-market-2014

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This year, mobile consumers own an average of 3.9 connected devices.

That’s a 67% increase from 2011.

http://www.jiwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JiWire_Insights_Q3_2013.pdf

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54% of users discover mobile ads via apps.

40% on search engines, 27% on retailer websites and 23% on a video website.

http://www.inmobi.com/inmobiblog/2013/02/27/inmobi-releases-second-wave-of-mobile-media-consumption-survey-global-results/

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Total traffic volumes from 2012 ALONE exceed all

previous years COMBINED.

http://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/760890/The_Mobile_Economy_2013.pdf

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Data is projected to grow 66% through 2017 to 11.2 Exabytes per month.

That’s the equivalentto more than 5 billionhours of HD video.

http://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/760890/The_Mobile_Economy_2013.pdf

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Since mobile devices are bandwidth hogs, 71% of all wireless traffic is via Wi-Fi.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240207492/Mobile-operators-ready-to-embrace-Wi-Fi

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67% of North America businesses are interested in using advanced analytics to improve business operations.

http://reports.informationweek.com/abstract/81/11715/Business-Intelligence-and-Information-Management/Research:-2014-Analytics

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