The era of mobile mobile computing was launched through the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.
And since then, the explosive growth has not stopped with 2011 being the most pivotal year we have seen since the launch of the era of smartphones.
Here are some numbers to show you the growth or decline which happened in 2011.
- 484 Million — The number of smartphones sold worldwide.
- 194% — Growth of Android smartphones worldwide.
- $33.62 Billion — The market value shed by Research in Motion (RIM) as each release of the iPhone kept making the Blackberry look like a child’s toy.
- $12.5 billion — Spent by Google to purchase a division of Motorola to secure patents for Android.
- 166% — Growth in the number of Facebook Mobile users for the first half of the year = 350 Million mobile users.
- 26 photos — Shared per second via Instagram.
- 8 Trillion – Number of Text Messages were sent.
- 103 Million — Wireless Tweets were sent.
- 1 Billion – Foursquare check-ins.
- $3 Billion — Paid by Apple to independent App developers.
- 1 Billion — Number of Apps downloaded worldwide each month.
- Facebook and Twiiter — Became the backbone of democratic events that toppled regimes throughout the Middle East.
Here is a video to show you an interactive version of some of the data presented above.
Sources: PaidContent, GigaOm, TheMobileFuture
Image courtesy of StudentOnCampus
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Ого!!! Ну отличная статистика!) В 2012 будет всего раза в три больше! Андроид чемпион!
Anybody correct the error. It is written facebook and twiiter in place of twitter.
Thank you so much Suraj.
We will correct it as soon as possible.
I have used HD on my Droid X for several months. Love it, especially the ability to customize the arrangement of my many bookmarks.
I was surprised to see tg’s email above because I’ve been looking for a solution to the same problem! The toolbar for the add-ons, on the right, no longer disappears when I try to slide it closed. This prevents me from viewing an entire page. Very frustrating!
I tried turning off the “sliding” option in my settings. I created gestures to open the bookmarks toolbar on the left (“b”) and the add-ons toolbar on the right (“a”) . This does cause the toolbars to close when you’re done with them, but it also takes longer than it does to simply slide them open and closeod. Also tried using different screen views (i.e. Android v. Desktop view) but that didn’t affect the toolbar — it simply won’t close.
FYI, this problem didn’t arise until recently. In fact, it started about the time I downloaded the Dolphin companion app and some of the new add-ons. And it affects the right (add-on) toolbar almost exclusively.
Any ideas? I just want these toolbars to stay hidden unless I need them!
Hey Kat.
Do you mean that the right sidebar will still slide out even if you disable “Swipe action” in Settings?
Hey,
The browser is too sensitive when scrolling left or right. The side bars keep popping open
Hi.
When you scroll a page, try to scroll it at the center not the edge. Or it will bring out Sidebars.