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Average smartphone usage

markt — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:41:15 +0000

What does an average smartphone user do? Here’s an infographic from techcrunch that answers the question from an iPhone perspective: albeit from the tail end of 2010. Three things stand out for me: 84 minutes of usage per day is broken down into a ‘third’ for telephony and two-thirds for ‘apps’. Assuming a 17 hour [...]

Why should we test smartphones?

markt — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:13:07 +0000

I find myself in the middle of a ‘device testing’ debate. Around one fifth of the Mobile Operator community have historically committed to large test teams, test centres and test budgets. Over the years these budgets, teams and centres have diminished – whilst the pressure on the teams has increased. Now, smartphone complexity (and the [...]

Android shipments & share Q3 2011

markt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:10:16 +0000

Latest results on smartphone market share: Android now upto 52.5% market share of the quarters smartphone shipments which is just over 60 million units... and 13.5% of all mobile device shipments for the quarter.

Android Shipments & Share Q4 2008 through to Q2-2011

markt — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:21:42 +0000

Android's progress; table, bar & line chart shows shipments and share from Q4 - 2008 to Q2 - 2011. Latest quarter uses Gartner update.

Android tech support to cost mobile operators over £1 billion in 2011.

markt — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:21:46 +0000

Android shipments just keep on going. Canalys reports (2Q-2011) that Android shipped 51.9mu (48% market share) which is good news – right? Well… attached to the success is a downside. According to WDS reports* Android owners will contact technical support 1.3 times a year, and the average handle time (AHT) for the Tech Support Desk [...]

Competitive test

markt — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:49:22 +0000

Smartphone testing may not be as sexy as the angry birds application, but as we say in England, Beauty is in the eyes of the beer-holder. Savage Minds recently submitted its entry form to the Cambridge Wireless discovering start-ups competition. If selected – you should be able to see our submission appear alongside other worthy [...]

Smartphone’s testing problem

markt — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:41:50 +0000

Part 1: There’s a problem with smartphone testing. Smartphone product teams that are responsible for bringing new devices to market, face a different sized problem to feature phone development teams. It’s not just a bigger ‘test’ problem – it’s an unbounded ‘test’ problem. A problem with no limits. And that makes it difficult problem to [...]

Image Accreditation

markt — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:42:59 +0000

The images on this site were selected for their hand-drawn ‘look ‘n feel’: