Mobile: Trends and Best

Practices

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* Feb 2011 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379665,00.asp

** Jan 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

What’s Happening Now? The Numbers Paint the Picture…

As of Q4 2010, more mobile devices are selling than PCs.

By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common device for web access.

* Feb 2011 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379665,00.asp

** Jan 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

Mobile Overtakes PC (Worldwide)

371K babies born per day

378K iPhones sold per day

* Feb 2012 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1506

iPhone Sales Overtakes Birth

Mobile Overtakes PC (Worldwide)

Smartphones account for 31% of all mobile sales worldwide

47% increase in sales worldwide 4Q 2011

Android dominant with 50.9% (iOS 23.8%)

* Gartner Q4 2011 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1924314

Smartphone Growth (Worldwide)

Global mobile data traffic grew 2.3-fold in 2011, doubling four year in a row

2011 mobile data traffic was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000

Smartphone usage tripled in 2011

Middle East and Africa will have strongest mobile data traffic growth of any region

* Cisco Feb http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html

Cisco: Global Mobile Data Traffic

What’s Happening Now? How Users Are Using the Mobile Web…

Photos: great app for the 2-way conversation

Video: the app for 1 to many

Email: I’m not dead yet

Responsive Design

Mobile+Social+Cloud: the ideal match

Mobile Web App vs. Native Apps

Social Recommendations for Business

Government

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