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February 15, 2012

Mobile Trends: Should We Really Call this a Smartphone?

IMHO (in my honest opinion), the day will come when the term smartphone will sound like the term “horseless carriage.” This kind of prognostication has been made before about “VoIP” by Vint Cerf. However, we may get there before VoIP based on growth.


According to the latest Cisco Report VNI report on the mobile Internet, we are seeing almost half of the data growth coming from smartphones. The traffic has more than doubled thanks to social networks, movie watching and music listening. In other words, the smartphone is the home and roam device.


According to the text of the report “much” of the data traffic happens while the user is at home. Anecdotally, I can tell you I was recently helping one of our daughters and asked her to use her laptop.  Instead she brought her “smartphone” with all her notes. Her laptop has become irrelevant to her work style.   So the phone has replaced the laptop for her, but for many people it’s replacing the TV instead. Verizon’s deal with Redbox comes at a time when the cable operators have embraced the smartphone/ tablet as another screen and Netflix represents more than a quarter of the data usage on the smart phone... Read More



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