Mobile statistics 2014 by country part. 2 [Spain, Italy, Japan, China]
January 6, 2015, by mobiThinking
Processing massive amounts of mobile traffic data, DeviceAtlas Data Explorer provides you with a unique insight into mobile traffic characteristics in countries across the world. Here are selected mobile traffic statistics for 2014 in Italy, Spain, Japan and China. You can also check out part 1 covering USA, UK, Germany and France here... Read More
A view from China – big is big
December 31, 2014, by ronan
I recently spent a week in China talking about [url=http://deviceatlas.com]DeviceAtlas[/url] and [url=http://gomobi.info]goMobi[/url] to various resellers and government officials. On these kinds of business trips, it’s always interesting to see what kind of mobile devices are in use. My travels were confined to Beijing but is nonetheless worth noting observations from there... Read More
You’ve been throttled, but don’t stop browsing!
December 19, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With the roll-out of LTE networks across the world over the past few years, and all the associated excitement about super high-speed mobile connections, it can be easy to forget that slow-to-grindingly-slow is the normal connection speed across large parts of the world. In Asia Pacific, for example—the world’s fastest growing mobile market—65% of all connections were 2G only in 2013... Read More
Free service to identify device type, browser and OS
December 10, 2014, by Martin Clancy
If you are looking for an easy and reliable way to identify device type (mobile, tablet, desktop, TV etc), OS and browser in your web applications, then you may want to check out a new free tool for that express purpose released by DeviceAtlas... Read More
M-commerce insights: Retailers in action
December 5, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
For the third part of our m-commerce series (see part 1, part 2), we decided to look more closely at two websites that have chosen different approaches to mobile. One, Maplin, has chosen an adaptive approach without a unique mobile URL, while the other, Currys, went with an RWD approach. Both are electronics retailers based out of the United Kingdom... Read More
Using Objective-C and Swift together in iOS Apps
December 2, 2014, by weimenglee
As an addendum to our previous article about the role of Swift in iOS app development, we now take a look at how Swift and Objective-C can be used together in iOS apps. Despite Apple’s intention to replace the Objective-C language using Swift, it is not practical in the short term simply due to the fact that developers are deeply entrenched in Objective-C. Rather than force Swift down the developer’s throat, Apple has made it easy to allow Objective-C to interoperate with Swift... Read More
M-commerce insights: Mobile users and context
November 25, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Our last article on m-commerce looked at the effect of performance on conversions for e-retailers. In this second part, we take a look at how user context is used to optimise and adapt content by major e-retailers, and how this can affect conversions... Read More
M-commerce insights: Give users what they want, and make it fast
November 19, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With Black Friday fast approaching, and this year’s predicted to be the busiest since 2006, we thought it an opportune time to take an in-depth look at e-commerce – specifically, at mobile e-commerce (m-commerce). M-commerce is a strand of online retail that’s nudging close to taking up 20% of total annual online sales; appreciating its business significance, and coming up with a viable mobile retail strategy, is, thus, crucial... Read More
HTML5 best practice Web apps: Quartz
November 3, 2014, by mobiThinking
David Jensen is the head of development at popular UK free newspaper Metro. He has overseen the migration of metro.co.uk to become a responsively-designed web app. With his first-hand experience of HTML5 and web apps, mobiThinking asked Jensen about his favourite web app (other than Metro)... Read More
