Showing posts with label smartphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smartphone. Show all posts

Sunday, June 10, 2012

ComScore: Nearly a quarter of US smartphone owners have tablets, love their video


If you've got a smartphone, it's increasingly likely that you're also carrying a tablet as a sidearm. ComScore understands that 23.6 percent of American smartphone owners also have an iPad, Kindle Fire or some other large touchscreen slab as of April. That's only 16.5 percent of all cellphone owners in the land, but that's a huge jump from 9.7 percent of smartphone owners (4.7 percent of cellphone owners) just one year earlier. And if you do own a slate, odds are that you're watching your fair share of movies and cat videos. More than half of tablet users, 53 percent, fire up the likes of Netflix or YouTube at least once a month, with almost a tenth (9.5 percent) tuning in daily. Tablet lovers are unsurprisingly three times more likely to watch than their smartphone counterparts, suggesting that it's just a short hop from buying a tablet to catching up on Daily Show episodes.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

US Cellular lowers prepaid prices, but smartphone users have to get the most expensive plan


Regional Carrier US Cellular has made a few changes to its prepaid plans. We have good and bad news for you. The good news is that the prices have been lowered for all 3 prepaid plans. The bad news is that if you are a smartphone user (we assume the vast majority of our readers are), you are now forced to sign up for the most expensive plan.

The plans are set as follows:
$35 a month for 400 voice minutes and 400 messages$50 a month for unlimited voice and messages, with 1 GB of data$65 a month for unlimited voice and messages, with 2 GB of data