July 24, 2008
SMS Still Dominant Data App
Text messaging continues to be the overwhelming data application used on a regular basis, says Yankee Groupanalyst Patrick Monaghan.
"On a weekly basis, 45 percent of all respondents with mobile phones use text messaging while other data applications get far less usage.
About 12 percent of mobile device users report using email weekly while and 11 percent of mobile users say they use their devices for Internet browsing on a weekly basis.
Even though year-over-year growth can look impressive, adoption of these data-intensive applications still remains slow, says Monaghan. From 2007 to 2008:
-- email usage on mobile phones grew by 71 percent,
-- mobile internet browsing at 57 percent
-- watching video clips or TV on a mobile phone grew 100 percent year-over-year between 2006 and 2007 but adoption only grew from two percent to four percent, he says.
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