Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase another 26x by 2015, says Cisco. Cisco expects two-thirds of the data to be in the form of video, including TV shows, movies and video calls. Meanwhile, Cisco says that in 2015, 56% of mobile traffic will come from laptops and netbooks, with 27% from smart phones and just 3.5% from tablets.

Other talking points:

• Global mobile data traffic grew 2.6-fold in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row.
• Last year’s mobile data traffic was three times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000.
• Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent for the first time in 2011.
• Mobile network connection speeds doubled in 2010. Globally, the average mobile network downstream speed in 2010 was 215 kilobits per second (kbps), up from 101 kbps in 2009. The average mobile network connection speed for smartphones in 2010 was 1040 kbps, up from 625 kbps in 2009.
• The top 1 percent of mobile data subscribers generate over 20 percent of mobile data traffic, down from 30 percent 1 year ago.
• Average smartphone usage doubled in 2010. The average amount of traffic per smartphone in 2010 was 79 MB per month, up from 35 MB per month in 2009.
• In 2010, the typical smartphone generated 24 times more mobile data traffic (79 MB per month) than the typical basic-feature cell phone (which generated only 3.3 MB per month of mobile data traffic).
• Android approaches iPhone levels of data use. At the beginning of the year, iPhone consumption was at least 4 times higher than that of any other smartphone platform. Toward the end of the year, iPhone consumption was only 1.75 times higher than that of the second-highest platform, Android.
• In 2010, 3 million tablets were connected to the mobile network, and each tablet generated 5 times more traffic than the average smartphone.
• There were 94 million laptops on the mobile network in 2010, and each laptop generated 22 times more traffic than the average smartphone. Mobile data traffic per laptop was 1.7 GB per month, up 49 percent from 1.1 GB per month in 2009.

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Virgin Mobile has officially announced the LG Optimus V to it’s Android lineup. Although this device can already be purchased at RadioShack, Virgin Mobile has just made the official announcement of availability. You can pick up this device for a cool $149.99 at a RadioShack near you. Check out the press release below.

LG Optimus V™ Joins Virgin Mobile USA Offering “Optimal” Experience for No-Contract Customers /> Virgin Mobile Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Launch of LG Optimus V To Make Your Sweetheart Swoon

WARREN, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE), February 01, 2011 – Virgin Mobile USA continues to enrich its handset lineup with the introduction of LG Optimus V, expanding its selection of Android handsets. Rolling out at Radio Shack stores and at www.virginmobileusa.com beginning today for $149.99, LG Optimus V creates a unique user experience that will keep people connected and in-the-know while on-the-go. LG Optimus V will become available in other major retailers throughout the month as well.

“More than 44 percent of smartphones purchased in the third quarter of 2010 were Android based with the iPhone coming in second1,” said Bob Stohrer, vice president-Marketing, Virgin Mobile USA. “With LG Optimus V on Android, Virgin Mobile customers who crave constant connectivity get a highly functional device with a high-resolution 3.2″ touch screen paired with an affordable monthly plan and no annual contract.”

“Users get the best of both worlds with LG Optimus V,” said Tim O’Brien, vice president of LG marketing. “Bringing an easy-to-use blend of applications and sleek design, LG Optimus V delivers the features users want with the efficient performance capabilities they deserve.”

Virgin Mobile Beyond Talk plans start at just $25 dollars a month for 300 minutes of voice and include unlimited messaging, IM, email, social networking and web access. For those who talk a bit more, the $40 plan offers 1,200 minutes of voice and for heavy gabbers, the $60 plan offers unlimited voice minutes each month.

Top handset review websites have described the LG Optimus S™, “as the best Android phone available,” “affordable yet full-featured,” “impressively quick and with [all of] the functionality most consumers need.” LG Optimus V, similar to the LG Optimus S, gives Virgin Mobile customers full integration of social networking apps, Microsoft Outlook Exchange e-mail and advanced messaging capabilities. In addition, Optimus V users also have access to more than 100,000 applications currently available on the Android Market™.

LG Optimus V also comes with a 3.2-inch touch-screen display, 3G and Wi-Fi capable, a 3.2 MP camera and video, and preloaded applications, including popular social apps such as YouTube® and Google Talk™. Additional features include:

Swype, a faster and easier way to input text on any screen, with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard. The patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods–at over 40 words per minute /> Contact and calendar sync via ActiveSync /> Android Web browser /> Full integration of Google Apps™ such as Google Maps™, Gmail™ and Google Navigation™ /> Document file viewer /> Built-in music player /> Optimus V is the second Virgin Mobile phone to offer Virgin Mobile Live, an online music stream of performances by past & present Virgin Mobile Festival artists including studio tracks, exclusive Festival performances and more, for free!

The launch of LG Optimus V also marks Virgin Mobile’s new handset packaging that is more eco-friendly. The green packaging is now composed of 100% recycled plastic and uses almost 50% less plastic. The design of the outer box has been revised to more clearly highlight the device, its features and Virgin Mobile’s Beyond Talk Plans. “The new packaging will provide a better customer experience in opening the package as well being kind to the environment,” said Stohrer.

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The Wimp.com – Family Friendly Videos app provides quick, easy access to the same videos available on their site. You can browse by upload date or pick your poison and search the archives. You won’t necessarily find the viral videos everyone is talking about around the water cooler, but there is an interesting and varied collection for perusal. The videos you discover can be shared on Twitter or Facebook, emailed to a friend, or saved for viewing later.

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Samsung has been teasing us with talk of big things to be revealed at the Mobile World Congress meeting in Barcelona for quite a while now.  Well, the meeting is just a couple of weeks away, and our suspicions look to be confirmed: the “something big” appears to be none other than the second generation of Galaxy S phones and Galaxy Tab devices. A leak from Samsung’s PR department detailing their schedule shows both the Galaxy S 2 and the Galaxy Tab 2 appearing in the lineup.

We’ll be keeping our eyes peeled for the news, and bring it to you the minute we find anything, so stay tuned!

Samsung to Reveal Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy Tab 2 at Mobile World Congress?

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How many LG Optimus smartphones can you fit in a VW Bug? We don’t know either, but you can fit a lot into retail stores and carriers! Virgin Mobile being one of them, having been the latest carrier to launch the LG Optimus V (V for Virgin….stop laughing now…) with Virgin software over Android OS, basically he same as the LG Optimus S for…you guessed it…Sprint. $150 will put you into the drivers seat at Virgin Mobile for an LG Optimus V.

This device features Android 2.2, a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, 600 Mhz processor, 3.2MP camera, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.

Check out he video below for a look at the LG Optimus V

Virgin Mobile launches LG Optimus V

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In 2010, there were some 763 million broadband subscribers world-wide, reports Instat.

“From 2007 through 2009, there was a continued growth rate of 25% in broadband subscribers worldwide,” says Vahid Dejwakh, Industry Analyst.

Additional research findings include:

• By year-end 2010, the US will have over 179 million broadband subscribers in the country.
• North America continues to be the largest market for cable modem services.
• Total worldwide DSL subscribers will reach 371 million at year-end 2010, fueled primarily by strong demand for DSL service in the Asia/Pacific region.
• Approximately 76% of the world’s FTTH subscribers reside in the Asia/Pacific region.
• Mobile wireless broadband subscribers continue to grow rapidly as mobile telephone service providers roll out 3G and 4G services.

Mobile broadband subscriptions are on track to surpass 1 billion in 2011 only months after reaching half a billion, according to Ericsson. There were 763 million broadband wireless subscribers in the world by the end of 2010, figures InStat.

With Verizon winding down FiOS, their fiber to the home program in the United States, most people will be stuck with one broadband pipe: cable. By year-end, Verizon had 4.1 million FiOS Internet and 3.5 million FiOS TV customers, while Comcast has 23 million video customers and 16.7 million broadband customers, along with 8.4 million Comcast Digital Voice customers.

Susan Crawford is critical of the Comcast/NBC deal, believing it will only reduce competition.

According to In-Stat, unit shipments for smartphones will reach nearly 850 million by 2015.

In-Stat found that by 2015, more than two-thirds of all smartphones will be WCDMA (GSM-based), and LTE smartphones will make up only the small minority of annual handset shipments. This will be true even in 2015. Other smartphone competitors besides Apple, Android and Nokia include MeeGo, Bada, WebOS and Windows Mobile.

Shipments of smartphones, tablets and other app-enabled devices will overtake PCs shipments in the next 18 months, says market research firm IDC. Shipments of personal computers will still continue to increase even as they are surpassed by other devices.

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker previously predicted the shift to mobile (above). IDC predicts worldwide shipments of smartphones and media tablets will reach 284 million in 2010. In 2011, makers will ship 377 million of these devices, and in 2012, the number will reach 462 million shipments, exceeding PC shipments, says IDC.

For PCs, IDC forecast 356 million PC shipments in 2010, and 402 million in 2011. In 2012, there will be 448 million PC shipments. IDC expects nearly 25 billion mobile apps to be downloaded in 2011, up from just over 10 billion in 2010. IDC forecasts worldwide IT spending will be US$1.6 trillion in 2011, an increase of 5.7% over 2010.

Will Apple’s App Store and Google’s Marketplace become the World Bank – or will Comcast and Huawei run the show and mind the store?

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This is a guest post by brucerwillkejr@gmail.com @androidbruce

If you are not familiar with what ‘rooting’ your phone means or what root access gives you, it’s not unlike that of an Administrator account on a Windows machine. Without administrative rights on a Windows machine it becomes difficult to install software,printers, and other peripherals. If you were to bring a phone into a carrier’s location they would not be obligated to support you and your issues if you have ‘rooted’ the device. In the same breath these carriers are selling laptops, netbooks, notebooks or whatever the hip marketing term happens to be at that moment (I am going with “notebook”), with windows installed that have administrator accounts that have the highest elevation of access to the operating system. These notebooks have existing data cards that allow them access to the the carrier’s network and use their services in the same way that a phone can browse the web with even more freedom and less restrictions. In addition to the cards that are pre-installed, you can purchase a usb device or wireless access point that also gives the same access to their network from any other device. Devices with administrative rights and root access and any other elevated accounts that might apply. Therefore, it seems to be an extreme case of double-speak when carriers refuse to work on “rooted” phones while they have these notebooks that allow full the equivalent within the Windows operating system.

Phones are not that disimilar from pc’s in today’s market. They browse the web, install applications, edit documents, video and photos. In my opinion, they are they same devices with a different form factor. If you feel the same way that I do in my comparison then can you imagine if other internet service providers restricted access to your devices on their network? Here is an example: you purchased your new Apple Macbook Pro for $1500 and you call Comcast to start service with them for your home Internet. They told you that you could put your device on their network only if it met the minimum requirements, and one of these requirements is that you can not have access to the entire machine’s operating system or administrator accounts. This would not only outrage most consumers, but it would severely hurt Comcast’s business and revenue streams. Many folks have made the argument that since these devices are being subsidized by the carriers and being offered at a significant discount that the carriers can restrict access to the device. With this being an interesting argument that holds some validity, they are still selling notebooks with subsidized prices and thus making a nullified argument. In addition to this argument, if I own my device and purchased it without a discount from the carrier and did not sign a contract to remain a customer for an agreed upon amount of time, should I not be allowed administrative rights to my device? This is just a clear example of the deception and double speak that we receive form carriers on a regular basis in an effort for them to turn the largest possible profit.

So the biggest question might be, how can we put an end to these poor policies and restrictions? Well, I don’t have the answer to that, but I believe if we stir up enough noise and refuse to accept these policies as users we can force companies to reform. We need a carrier to step up and take initiative and show the others how this can be accomplished, while maintaining profits and customers. Until that day comes I think we can try our best to continue to break these constraints and support the developers that work very hard at giving us the most access possible to our devices. The next time you use someone’s binary to gain administrative rights to your device, why not buy them a beer to throw them a few dollars just to say thank you.

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If you’ve never heard of XTop Mobile before that’s likely because it has been "coming soon" forever now. That said, XTop Mobile has finally been released in a lovely beta fashion and is welcoming users to sign up and try out the service. That service promises to create a lot of productivity between you, your PC and your BlackBerry. The full feature set below:

• Get real-time notification of all incoming calls directly on your Laptop / PC so you don’t have to reach for your Smartphone during meetings or while you’re at your desk.
• View, send and receive emails from the BIS (i.e. hotmail, gmail) and BES accounts on your Smartphone, wherever you are, without having to connect to a 3rd Party Hotspot.
• Send and receive SMS and PIN chat messages in a chat-like window directly from your Laptop / PC screen.
• Add, edit and manage your Smartphone contacts directly from your Laptop / PC in real-time.
• Automatically back-up of all contacts, emails and text messages every time you walk-up to your laptop.  

Sounds pretty awesome right? The beta is available now and gives you a full 30 days to try out the services. Full launch is expected next month but no details have yet been given indicating as to what the service may cost. Sadly, no Mac support is available as of yet either so this is just strictly for the Windows users out there. Give it a shot and let us know in the comments how it’s working out for you.

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The the Consumer Electronics Show last week, at least 14 new cellphones unveiled at CES, eight were 4G phones for the AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint networks, reports This Week in Consumer Electronics. Eight of those 14 3G and 4G phones sported dualfacing video cameras to enable live video chats of Wi-Fi or cellular networks or both. All 14 were Android-based. Two 4G phones and one 3G phone became the first U.S.-market models to be announced with dual-core processors.

In carrier news:

• AT&T announced plans to accelerate its 4G LTE rollout, beginning in mid-2011 and targeted year-end 2013 for the rollout to be largely complete. The carrier says its HSPA+ is currently available on almost all of its footprint and that its first two HSPA+ phones — the Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G — will arrive in the first quarter. The Samsung Infuse 4G won’t arrive until the second quarter of 2011.
• T-Mobile announced that about 140 million people in 25 metro areas will get access to an HSPA+ upgrade called multicarrier HSPA, doubling peak data speeds to 42Mbps from 21Mbps and said it will launch at least 25 new “4G” devices, starting with its first 4G tablet — the Dell Streak 7, with Tegra 2 processor, expected to be available at T-Mobile stores across the country in the coming weeks and an upcoming Android Honeycomb-powered LG G-Slate
• Verizon Wireless said it would roll out 10 more 4G LTE devices in the first half to join the two USB modems it launched in December. Their 4G LTE devices, available by the middle of 2011, include: HTC ThunderBolt (1GHz Snapdragon), LG Revolution (4.3-inch screen), DROID Bionic 4G (HDMI and dual-core processor), and Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone (4.3-inch display). Their tablets will include the Motorola XOOM and Samsung Galaxy Tab
• Sprint said its 4G WiMAX network is currently available in 71 markets across the country and announced plans to launch a new BlackBerry PlayBooktablet model featuring WiMAX connectivity and the $149 HTC EVO Shift 4G, a smaller, cheaper version of the HTC EVO 4G smartphone

Handset vendor announcements included:

• Dell: The company’s latest Android smartphone, the Dell Venue Pro, a Windows Mobile phone, was announced, but the company won’t reveal pricing or availability for a few more weeks. The Dell Venue phone is a different animal altogether, running Android 2.2, and will be available in versions for the T-Mobile and AT&T 3G networks, using the 7.2Mbps HSPA 3G standard. It features 1GHz processor, 4.1-inch display with curved Corning Gorilla Glass. Their Streak 7 will be on T-Mobile.
• HTC: The 4G Thunderbolt smartphone for Verizon’s LTE network will feature 4.3-inch screen, 4G hot spot to connect up to eight Wi- Fi devices to Verizon’s network, Android 2.2, 1GHz processor, DLNA, 720p video capture and kickstand. The HTC Inspire HSPA+ smartphone for AT&T features Android 2.2, 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, mobile hot spot to connect up to five Wi-Fi devices to Verizon’s network, DLNA certification, 8-megapixel camera and 720p video capture.
• LG: The company will bring the Optimus 2X, one of the world’s first smartphones with dual-core processor, to the U.S. around March as a 3G HSPA device. It will also be the world’s first phone to capture, store and play back video in full 1080p resolution. It will ship with Android 2.2 OS, or Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It features 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 4-inch 400 by 800 capacitive touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera/camcorder, front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n. The Optimus Black HSPA phone is said to be the world’s slimmest cellphone and features Wi-Fi Direct capability for direct transfer of phone content to other mobile devices and PCs, and features a front-facing 2-magapixel camera for video chats. It’s not certain yet when the phone will be available in the U.S.
• Motorola: Two 4G Android phones, one each for AT&T and Verizon, plus a new 3G phone for T-Mobile, debuted. The two 4G phones are the Atrix 4G for AT&T’s HSPA+ network and the Droid Bionic for Verizon’s LTE network, both with dual-core 1GHz processors with a total of 2GHz processing power.T he Droid Bionic will be available in the early second quarter with Android 2.2 OS, 4G and Wi-Fi video chat via VGA front-facing camera, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, 16GB embedded memory, 32GB MicroSD Card slot, DLNA certification, mobile hot spot. The Atrix 4G for AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network comes with 4-inch display, Android 2.2, 32MB MicroSD slot, 2.1GHzband HSPA operation in overseas markets, AT&T U-verse app to stream U-verse TV content to the phone and multiple accessory docks.
  

  One Atrix 4G dock takes the shape of a laptoplooking clamshell into which the Atrix 4G is placed and features 11.6- inch display. The other dock connects to a TV, keyboard and mouse to deliver a PC-like experience. The Atrix 4G is due in AT&T stores and enterprise channels “in the coming weeks.” For T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network, Motorola unveiled the Cliq 2 with 1GHz processor, slide-from-the-side QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.2, 3.7-inch screen, 3G HSPA technology, hot spot capability, Adobe Flash 10.1, Blockbuster On Demand app, Kindle app, Motoblur service, 5-megapixel camera and IT-friendly security features. It will be available Jan. 19.

• Samsung: The Infuse 4G HSPA+ phone for AT&T will become available “in the near future” with 4.5-inch touchscreen features Samsung 1.2GHz processor, Android 2.2, 8-megapixel HD camera/camcorder, and front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera. Samsung’s 4G LTE phone for Verizon, as yet unnamed, features Android 2.2, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display for improved viewing in sunlight, HD video recording, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and access to Samsung’s Media Hub movie- and TVshow- download service. A new Galaxy S device is expected at Mobile World Congress in February that’ll feature Gingerbread, and a dual-core processor. The Samsung Vibrant Plus will be T-Mobile’s first 4G phone that offers HSPA+ 21 Mbps.
• ViewSonic: The TV supplier unveiled its first cellphone and expects to offer multiple models in the U.S. this year to go with its tablets. The first phone is the Android 2.2-based View-Pad 4 with Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.1-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 720p HD video camcorder, mini HDMI output, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, assisted GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and FM tuner. It supports video chat over cellular data via a font-facing camera. Their G Tablet features an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1.3MP video conferencing camera, large 10.1” display, and Android 2.2 OS.
• Vizio: The TV maker’s first cellphone will feature 4-inch 480 by 854 capacitive touchscreen, front-facing camera, HDMI output and 802.11n Wi-Fi. It’s due in the U.S. in the summer, with 3G technology to be announced. The Via Phone will also double as an IR remote and access Vizio’s Via Plus Internet service. The VIZIO VIA Tablet features a 1 GHz processor, with an 8” high-resolution capacitive touch screen, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, and a MicroSD card slot.

Data pricing will be a major factor in how consumers respond to new networks and devices.

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This is a little late on the news forefront, but definitely worth noting.  In late December, in hopes to be a hit for the Holidays, Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile, announced that PayPal has added a donations feature to their popular mobile application.  The app now allows donations to be made easily to more than 23,000 charities.  Download the app from our database here or on the Android Market and hit the break for the press release where you’ll find more details on what the feature offers.   Read More…

Paypal Mobile Is Making It Easier For You To Donate To Your Favorite Charity

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Skype introduced free mobile video calling using an iPhone a couple of weeks ago and said it will support Android phones on Verizon’s LTE network. Then, last week at CES, Skype also launched a paid servicefor group video calling on computers.

Walt Mossberg reviews Skype Mobile and Group Calling:

Group video calling is available as part of the new Premium package from Skype. They offer a day pass for $4.99 (€3.49/£2.99), or as a monthly subscription for $8.99 (€5.99/£4.99)* per month. Skype users who sign up for group video calling in the first month it’s available will receive a 33 percent discount on 3 and 12-month subscriptions. New users receive a 7-day free trial.

On Monday, Skype announced they had 27 million concurrent users. This announcement has come just about two months after they had reported 25 million users Skyping concurrently. Skype’s software is used on an estimated 25 per cent of the world’s international long distance voice calling minutes, and approximately 40 per cent of those Skype-to-Skype calls are happening over video.

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Speed is the most important element of your website. The best designed, most informative site in the world is useless if it doesn’t load fast enough for people to stick around. Nowhere is this more true than on mobile websites.

Testing mobile websites is something of a headache — there is no Firebug for mobile browsers, which means no YSlow or other profiling tools. True, you can load the site in desktop browser and profile it that way, but sometimes what works on the desktop isn’t necessarily working the same way in a mobile browser.

That’s why Google developer Steve Souders’ created the Mobile Perf bookmarklet, a handy javascript bookmarklet that you can use to test sites on your mobile devices. The bookmarklet is really just a set of links to other bookmarklets, but combining them all in one place makes life a bit easier.

The Mobile Perf bookmarklet contains links to Firebug Lite, the awesome DOM Monster, CSSess, Zoompf and Souders’ own SpriteMe and Page Resources. If you’ve been looking for an easy way to test website performance on the small screen, grab a copy of the Mobile Perf bookmarklet.

See Also:

• Make a Big Splash on Tiny Screens With Media Queries
• W3C Offers a Guide to Building Mobile Web Apps
• Slide Show Time: Rethinking the Mobile Web

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According to a recent tweet, Virgin Mobile USA will be updating their Samsung Intercept to Android 2.2 “sometime this spring.” The Intercept is relatively new to to VM’s lineup, arriving only back in October of 2010. If they stick to their word it could set a new record for getting Android 2.2 to a Samsung phone, but we’re not holding out breath. More details are sure to come out in the coming months.

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