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Amazon's Shopping and Showrooming Phone

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  The phone is priced at $199 to $299 with a two-year contract. It also has a "dynamic perspective" feature than uses 4 onboard cameras to track a user's head movements so it can provide 3D like images.  Pretty cool. This is cheaper than similar iPhones, but not as aggressively priced as many expected.

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More Global Mobile Phone Subscribers Than People by 2015

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I was reading GigaOm Pro's Global Mobile Subscriber Forecast and noticed that by 2015 the world will have quite a few more global mobile phone subscriptions than people.    As the chart below shows, GigaOm is projecting that there will be a bit over 8 billion global mobile subscriptions in 2015.   

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Smartphone Sales to Over Take Feature Phone Sales in 2011

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Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « 1 in 8 Consumers Forecasted to Cut or Eliminate Cable TV in 2010 | Main | An Overview of the Non-Profit Sector » May 12, 2010 Smartphone Sales to Over Take Feature Phone Sales in 2011 Nielsen is forecasting that smartphone sales in the U.S. will exceed "dumb" phones in 2011. 

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How the Pandemic Changed the Way Americans Spent Their Time

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The New York Times article More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute examines data from the American Time Use survey to show the changes in how Americans spent their time last year.  

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Quibi Bets Big on Mobile Movies

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The question, of course, is whether or not people want and will pay for high quality, short-form video entertainment on their phone (Quibi is planning on charging $4.99 There is an unbelievable amount of content being consumed today on phones on the go. per month for access to their content).  It’s just not of this quality.”.

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Big Smartphones Driving Online Video

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Recode's Big Smartphones Ate the Tablet Market big phones are defined as those with screens "between 5 inches and 6 inches in diagonal (an iPhone 7 Plus measures 5.5 Why buy a tablet if your phone is also effectively a tablet. inches diagonally)."  This makes perfectly sense. Key quote: Americans spent about 7.5

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How the iPhone Changed the World

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.  It has charts and data on things like the growth of data traffic, phones replacing cameras, its impact on advertising, etc.    The reason, according to the article, is we're now too busy looking at our phones in check-out lines to buy gum.   But our favorite is it's impact on chewing gum sales.

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